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THE 

GEORGE ELIOT 
Birthday Book 



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BOSTON : 



HALL & WHITING, 
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Copyright, 1S82. 
By Hall & Whiting. 



Printed by Wright & Pottsr Printing Company. 



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PREFACE. 

If the students and lovers of George Eliot's works fail to find all their 
favorite passages in this little volume, let them remember onr "erabarras des 
richesses " ; and moreover if it pains them to miss loved passages, it has been a 
pain to us to omit them. Our Birth-Day Book would need to be issued in 
volumes, did it contain all the noble thoughts of this great writer, which it 
would be well for us to lodge in our meinories, and ponder in our hearts from 
day to day. We have tried to introduce those which express our Great Teacher's 
favorite lessons. 

We confess to feeling a little audacious in selecting quotations for one hundred 
and fifty women, especially when George Eliotherself says " Attempts at descrip- 
tion are stupid : who can all at once describe a human being? " Let those in- 
clined to criticise our selections reflect that in most instances it is impossible to 
seize upon more than one point in a character. As women are many-sided, how 
can we expect in a few lines to describe " that iridescence of character — that 
play of various, nay contrary tendencies?" 



Anothei" difficulty has been to And the birth-days of women. We had not 
thouglit of this as anytliing but a very simple matter. We had supposed it an 
affair of a few minutes to discover Martha Washington's birth-day, whereas no 
living person has any knowledge of it. We thought anyone who had stood by 
Mrs. Browning's grave in Florence must know the day of her birth, but we 
find recorded there only the day of her death. When Kobert Browning declares 
that he does not know his wife's birth-daj% and confesses to feeling no curiosity 
about it, we drop the search, feeling it would be bad taste in us to know more 
about it than does the great poet himself. 

In all cases where thei'e is not a reasonable certainty as to any woman's birth- 
day, we have placed a star against her name in the index. 

E. S. N. G. 



Presentiment of better things on earth 
Sweeps in with every force that stirs our souls 
To admiration, self-renouncing love, 
Or thoughts, like light, that bind the world in one ; 
Sweeps like the sense of vastness when at night 
We hear the roll and dash of waves that break 
Nearer and nearer with the rushing tide, 
Which rises to the level of the cliff. 
Because the wide Atlantic rolls behind, 
Throbbing respondent to the fai'-off orbs. 



A Minor Prophet. 



January 1. 

Man can do nothing without the make-believe of a beginning. No 

retrospect will take us to the true beginning ; and whether our prologue 

be in heaven, or on earth, it is but a fraction of that all-presupposing 

fact with which our story sets out. 

Daniel Deronda. 

— ^^ — 

Youth thinks itself the goal of each, old life. 
Age has but travelled from a far-off time, 
Just to be read}' for jouth's service. Well, 
It was my chief delight to perfect 3'ou. 



A.RMGAUT. 



January 2. 

I WILL elect my deeds, and be the liege, 
Not of my birth, but of that good alone 
I have discerned and chosen. 

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, 

And what we have been makes us what we are. 



MiDDLEMARCH. 



January 1. 
Maria Edgeworth, 1767. 



January 2. 



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January 3. 



Persons attracted him, as Hans Meyrick had done, in proportion to 

the possibiUt}^ of his defending them, rescuing, telling upon their lives 

with some sort of redeeming influence. 

Daxiel Deronda. 



January 4. 

Mrs. Glegg chose to wear her bonnet in the house today — untied 
and tilted slightly, of coui'se, a frequent practice of hers when she was 
on a visit, and happened to be in a severe mood : she didn't knovv what 
draughts there m-ight be in strange houses. For the same reason slie 
wore a small sable tippet, which reached just to her shoulders, and was 
very far from meeting across her well-formed chest. 

The Mill os the Floss. 



January 3. 
Lucretia Mott, 1793. 



January 4. 



January 5. 



Examine your words well, and you will find that even when 3'ou have 
no motive to be false, it is a very hard thing to say the exact truth, even 
about your own immediate feelings — much harder tha,n to say something 
fine about them which is not the exact truth. 

Adam Bede. 



January 6. 



Her inspired ignorance gives a sublimity to actions so incongruously 
simple that otherwise they would make men smile. Some of that ardor 
which has flashed out and illuminated all poetry and history was burning 
today in the bosom of sweet Esther Lj-on. 

Feux Holt. 



January 5. 
Madame Rc^musat, 1780. 



January 6. 

'Joan of Arc, 1402, 



January 



People Avho live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those im- 
mediatel}' nnder our own ej'es ; and it seems superfluous when we con- 
sider the remote geographical position of the Ethiopians, and how very 
little the Greeks had to do with them, to inquire further wh}' Homer 

calls them " blameless." 

The Mill on the Floss. 



January S. 



Our lives make a moral tradition for our individual selves, as the 
life of mankind at large makes a moral tradition for the race; and to 
have once acted greatly seems to make a reason why we should always 
be noble. 

ROMOLA. 



January 7. 



JANUARY S. 



January 9. 

Mr. Lydcatr, — 

"'Don't you think men overrate the necessity for humoring ever}'- 
body's nonsense, till they get despised by the very fools they humor? 
The shortest way is to make your value felt so that people must put up 
with you whether you flatter them or not." 
Mr. Farebrother, — 

" With all my heart. But then j'ou must be sure of having tlie value, 
and you must keep }'our independence." 

MlPDLEMAUCli. 

January 10. 



In the career of a great public orator who yields himself to the inspira- 
tion of the moment, tliat conflict of selfish and unselfish emotion whicli 
in most men is hidden in the chamber of the soul, is brought into terrible 
evidence ; the language of the inner voices is written out in letters of fire. 

ROMOLA. 



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January 9. 



January 10. 



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January 1 1. 



And young Mr. Lammeter, he'd have no way but he must be married 
in Janiwar}', which to be sure 's a unreasonable time to be married in, 
for it is n't like a christening or a burying, as you can't help. 

Silas Marnek. 



January 12. 



It is dreadful to think on, people placing with their own insides in that 

way ! And its flying i' the face o' Providence ; for what are the doctors 

for if us are n't to call 'em in? And when folks have got the mone}' to 

pay for a doctor, it isn't respectable, as I've told Jane many a time. 

I'm ashamed of acquaintance knowing it. 

The Mill on the Floss. 



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January 11. 



January 12. 



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January 13. 



If we want to avoid giving the dose of hemlock or the sentence of 
banishment in the wrong case, nothing will do but a capacity to under- 
stand the subject-matter on which tlie immovable man is convinced, and 
fellowship with human travail, both near and far, to hinder us from 

scanning any deep experience lightly. 

Daniel Dejjonda. 



January 14. 



After all has been said that can be said about the widening influence 

of ideas, it remains true that they could hardly be such strong agents 

unless they were taken in a solvent of feeling. 

Uqmola. 



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January 13. 



January 14. 



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January 15. 

O BUDDING time ! 
O love's best prime ! 



Two Lovers. 



Young delight that wonders at itself 
And throbs as innocent as opening flowers, 
Knowing not comment, — soilless, beautiful. 

The Spanish Gypsy. 

January 16. 

A WOMAN mixed of such tine elements 
That were all virtue and religion dead 
She'd make them newly, being what she was. 

The Spanish Gypsy. 

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It is lawful to marry again, I suppose, unless we might as well be Hin- 
doos instead of Christians. Of course if a woman accepts the wrong man 
she must take the consequences, and one who does it a second time 

deserves her fate. Middlemakch. 

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January 15. 
Margery Fleming, 1803. 



January 16. 
Sister Dora (Dorotlay Wiiidlow Pattison). 1832; Mrs. Thrale, 1740, 



January 1' 



And it is in the nature of exasperation gradually to concentrate itself. 

The sincere antipathy of a dog towards cats in general necessarily talvcs 

the form of indignant barking at the neighbor's black cat which malvcs 

daily trespass ; the bark at imagined cats, though a frequent exercise of 

the canine mind, is yet comparatively feeble. 

Felix Holt. 



January IS. 



Mr. Craig was not above tallcing politics occasionally, though he 

piqued himself rather on a wise insight than on specihc information. He 

saw so far beyond the mere facts of a case, that realh' it was superfluous 

to know them. 

Ada:\i IJkdi;. 



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January 17. 



January 18. 



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January 19. 



Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy in the force of imagina- 
tion that pierces or exalts the solid fact, instead of floating among cloud- 
pictures. 

Daniel Deuonda. 



January 20. 



There may come a moment when even an excellent husband, who has 
dropped smoking under more or less of a pledge during courtship, for the 
first time will introduce his cigar-smoke between himself and his wife, 
with the tacit understanding that she will have to put up with it. 

Daniel Deronda. 



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January 19. 
Sarah Helen Whitman, 180,3. 



January 20. 



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January 21. 



But what great mental or social type is free from specimens whose in- 
significance is both ugly and noxious. One is afraid to think of alt that 
the genus " patriot" embraces ; or of the elbowing there might be on the 
day of judgment for those who ranlced as authors, and brought volumes 

either in their hands or on trucks. 

Daniel Dekonda. 



January 22. 



Mrs. Tl'lliver had lived thirteen years with her husband, jet she re- 
tained in all the freshness of her early married life a facility for saying- 
things which drove him in the opposite direction to the one she desired. 
Some minds are wonderful for keeping their bloom in this way. 

The Mill ox the Floss. 



January 21. 



January 22. 



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January 23. 



There are so many things wrong and difficult in the world that no man 
can be great — he can hardly keep himself from wickedness — unless he 
gives up thinking much about pleasures or rewards, and gets strength to 
endure what is hard and painful. 

l\OMOLA. 



January 24. 



Mr. Borthrop Trumbull had a kindly liquid iu his veins ; he was an 
admirer by nature, and would have liked to have the universe under his 
hammer, feeling that it would go at a higher figure for his recommenda- 
tion. 

MiDDLKMARCII. 



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January 23. 



January 24. 



January 25. 



1 UAVE often wondered whether those earl}- Madonnas of Raphael, with 
the bland faces and somewhat stupid expression, kept their placidit}' un- 
disturbed when their strong-limbed, strong-willed boys got a little too old 
to do without clothing. I think they must have been given to feeble 
remonstrance, getting more and more peevish as it became more and 

more ineffectual. 

The Mill ox the Floss. 

January 26. 



We sit up at night to read about Cakya-Monui, St. Francis, or Oliver 
Cromwell ; but whether we should be glad for any one at all like them to 
call on us the next morning, still more to reveal himself as a new rela- 
tion, is quite another affair. 

Daniei. Dekond.v. 



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January 25. 



January 26. 



January 27. 



But under his calm and somewhat self-repressed exterior there was a 

fervor, which made him easily find poetry and romance among the events 

of every-da}' life. And perhaps poetry and romance are as plentiful as 

ever in the world. They exist very easily in the same room with the 

microscope, and even in railway carriages : what banishes them is the 

vacuum in gentlemen and lady passengers. 

Daniel Dekonda. 



January 28. 



The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its 
charity, changes the lights for us. We begin to see things again in their 
larger, quieter masses, and to believe that we toocan be seen and judged 
in the wholeness of our character. 

MlDDLEMAKCn. 



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January 27. 
* Dinah Mulocb Craik, 1826. 



January 28. 



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January 29. 



There are few prophets in the world, — few sublimely beautiful women, 
— few heroes. I can't afford to give all my love and reverence to such 
rarities ; I want a great deal of those feelings for mv every-day fellow- 
men. 

Adam Bede. 



January 30. 



Depend upon it vanit}' is human, — native alike to men and women ; 
only in the male it is of denser texture, less volatile, so that it less im- 
mediatel}' informs you of its presence, but it is more massive and capable 
of knocking you down if you come into collision with it ; while in women 
vanity lays by its small revenges .as in a needle-case always at hand. 

Theophha.stui? Such. 

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January 29. 



January 30. 



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January 31 



This is what I call debasing the moral currenc}' ; lowering the value of 

every inspiring fact and tradition so that it will command less and less 

of the spiritual products, the generous motives which sustain the charm 

and elevation of our social existence. 

Theophkastus Sucu. 



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January 31. 



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Thkre is nolliing like settling with ourselves as there 's a deal we must 
do without i' this life. Its no use looking on life as if it were Treddles'ou 
fair, where folks go to see shows and get fairings. If we do, we shall 
find it different. 

AuAM Bkde. 



34 



At the division of tlie Promised Land, each has to win his portion by 
hard fighting ; the bestowal is after the manner of prophecy, and is a 
title without possession. To carry the map of an ungotten estate in 
your pocket is a poor sort of copyhold. And in fancy to cast his shoe 
over Edom is little warrant that a man shall ever set the sole of his foot 
on an acre of his own there, 

Daniel Deronda. 



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February 1. 

To a fine ear, that tone said, as plainly as possible : " Whatever re- 
commends itself to me, Thomas Jerome, as piety and goodness, shall 
have my love and honor. Ah, friends, this pleasant world is a sad one, 
too, is n't it? Let us help one another, let us help one another." 

Janet's Repentance. 

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No curse has fallen on us till we cease 
To help each other. 



The Spanish Gypsy. 



February 2. 



She felt the largeness of the world, and the manifold wakings of men 
to labor and endurance. She was a part of that involuntary, palpi- 
tating life, and could neither look out on it from her luxurious shelter as 
a mere spectator, nor hide her eyes in selfish complaining. 



MiDDLEMARCH. 



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February 1, 



February 2. 
Hannah More, 1745. 



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February 3. 



Look at his hands ; they are not small and dimpled, with tapering 
fingers that seem to have only a deprecating touch ; they are long, 
flexible, firmly-grasping liands such has Titian has painted in a picture 
where he wanted to show the combination of refinement with force. 

Danikl Deuonua. 



February 4. 

Am I a sage whose words must fall like seed 

Silentl}' buried toward a far-off" spring? 

I sing to living men, and my effect 

Is like the summer's sun, that ri[)ens corn 

Or now or never. If the world brings me gifts, 

Gold, incense, myrrh — 'twill be the needful sign 

That I have stirred it as the high year stirs 

Before I sink to winter. 

Ai{m<;aiit. 

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February 3. 



February 4. 

* Mrs. Oliphanr, ISlSo 



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February o. 



This figure hath high price : 'Twas wrought with love 

Ages ago in finest ivor}' ; 

Nanglit modish in it, pure and nol>le lines 

Of generous womanhood that fits all time. 

MiDDLEMARCH. 



February 6. 



His veiy faults Avere middling. It was not in his nature to be superla- 
tive in anything ; unless, indeed, he was superlatively middling, the 

quintessential extract of mediocrity. 

Amos Barton. 



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February b. 
Madame 8evign(:', 1626. 



February 6. 

Qneen Anne, of England, 1664. 



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February 7. 



The deed of Judas has ])een attributed to far-reaching views, and the 
wish to hasten his Master's declaration of Himself as the Messiah. 
Perhaps — I will not maintain the contrary — Judas represented his 
motive in this wa}', and felt justified in his traitorous kiss ; but m}' belief 
is that he deserved to be where Dante saw him. 

THEf)PHKASTTTS SuCH. 



February 8. 



I HAVE all my life had a sympathy for mongrel, u'lgainly dogs, who are 
nobody's pets ; and I would ratlier surprise one of them by a pat and a 
pleasant morsel than meet the most condescending advances of the 
loveliest sky-terrier who has his cushion l)y m}' lady's chair. 

Amos Bakton. 



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February 7. 



February 8. 



February 9. 



Neither Luther nor John Bunyan would have satisfied the modern 
demand for an ideal hero, who believes nothing but what is true, feels 
nothing but what is exalted, and does nothing but what is graceful. 

Janet's liEPENTANCic. 



February 10. 



But truth-venders and medicine-venders usually recommend swallow- 
ing. When a man sees his livelihood in a pill or proposition, he likes 

to have orders for the dose, and not curious inquiries. 

Feux Holt. 



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February 9. 



February 10. 



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February 11. 



Though all the luminous angels of the stars 

Burst into cruel chorus on his ear, 

Singing " We know no merc^'," he would cry 

" I know it " still, and soothe the frightened bird 

And feed the child a-liungered, walk abreast 

Of persecuted men, and keep most hate 

For rational torturei's. 

Thk Spanish Gypsy. 

February 12. 



Second sight is a flag over disputed ground. But it is matter of 
knowledge that there are persons whose yearnings, conceptions — nay, 
travelled conclusions — continual!}' take the form of images which have 
a foreshadowing power : the deed they would do starts up before them in 
complete shape, making a coercive type ; the event they hunger for or 
dread rises into vision with a seed-like growth, feeding itself fast on un- 
numbered impressions. 

Danikl Dekonda. 

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February 11. 
Lydiii Alalia Child, 1802. 



February 12. 



February 13. 



But my liiisbaiurs tongue 'ud have been a fortune to anybody, and 

there was man}' a one said it was as good as a dose of pliysic to liear 

him talk ; not but what that got liini into trouble, but he always said, if 

the worst came to the worst, he could go and preach to the blacks. But 

he did better than that, Mr. Lyon, for he married me. 

Felix Holt. 



February 14. 

Young love-making — that gossamer web ! p]ven the points it clings 
to — the things whence its subtle interlacings are swung — are scarceh' 
perceptible ; momentary- touches of finger-tips, meetings of rays from 
blue and dark orbs, unfinished phrases, lightest changes of cheek and 
lip*, faintest tremors. The web itself is made of spontaneous beliefs 
and indefinable joys, yearnings of one life toward another, visions of 
completeness, indefinite trust. 

MlDDLKMARCH. 

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February 13. 



February 14. 



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February 15. 

I 'vE no opinion o' the men, INIiss Gun — 1 don't know wliat you \\ix\Q. 
And as for fretttng and stewing aljout what they 'II think of you from 
morning till night, and making your life uneasy about what thej' 're 
doing when the}' 're out o' your sight — as I tell Nancy, it 's a foil}' no 
woman need be guilty of, if she 's got a good father and a good home ; 
let her leave it to them as have got no fortin' and can 't help themselves. 

Silas Mauneu. 

February 1G. 



There is no sense of ease like the ease we felt in those scenes where 

we were born, where objects became dear to us before we had known the 

labor of choice, and where the outer world seemed only an extension of 

our own personality ; we accepted and loved it as we accepted our own 

existence and our own limbs. 

Thk Mill ox tue Floss. 



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February 15. 

Susan Anthony, 1820. 



February 16. 



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Agatha. 



February 17. 



Dear 

As all the sweet home things she smiles upon, 
The children and the cows, the apple-trees. 
The cart, the plough, all named with that caress 
"Which feigns them little, easy to be held, 
Familiar to the e3'es and hand and heart. 



February IS. 



That 's what I jaw m}' old mother for. I sa3-s " ^-ou should ha' sent 
me to a school a bit more," I says — " an' then I could ha' read i' the 
books like fun, an' kep' my head cool an' empty." 

The Mill ox the Floss. 



52 



February 17. 
Rose Terry Cook, 1827 



February 18. 



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February 19. 

Hek body was so slight, 
It seemed she coidd have floated in the sky, 
And with the angeUc choir made s^'mphouy, 
But in her cheek's rich tinge, and in the dark 
Of darkest hair and eyes, she bore a mark 
Of kinship to her generous Mother Earth, 
The fervid land that gives the plumy palm-trees birth. 

How Lisa Loa'ed thk Kino. 

<#;>|o 

Welly laike a linnet, wi' on'y joust body anoof to hold her voice. 

Mh. Gilkili;.s Love-story. 

February 20. 

(), horrible 

To be in chains ! Why 1, with all ni}' bliss, 
Have longed sometimes to tt}' and be at large ; 
Have felt imi)risoned in my luxury 
AVith servants for m}' jailers. O my lord. 
Do 3'ou not wish the world were ditlbreut? 

The Spanish Gyps v. 
54 



February lu. 
Adelaide Fatti, 1843. 



February 20. 

Angelina Giinike Weld. 



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February 21. 



I 'vE ;x strange feeling about the dumb things as if they wanted to 
speak, and it was a trouble to 'em because tlicy couldn't. I can't help 
being sorry for the dogs always, though perhaps there 's no need. But 
they ma^' well have more in them than tliey know how to make us under- 
stand, for we can't say half what we feel, with all our words. 

Adam Bkdk. 



February 22. 



The greatest gift the hero leaves his race 
Is to have been a hero. Say we fail ! 
We feed the high tradition of the world. 

.... I will not count 

On aught 1)ut being faithful. 

Tun Spanish Gypsy. 



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February 21. 



February 22. 



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February 23. 

She is a royal changeling : there 's some crown 

Lacks the right head, since hers wears naught but braids. 

Fi:li\- IIoi.t. 

However, she had the charm, and those who feared her weie also fond 
of her ; the fear and fondness being perhaps both heightened by what 
may be called the iridescence of her character — the play of various, nay, 
contrary tendencies 

Daniel Deuoxda. 

February 24. 



Loud men called his subdued tone an undertone, and sometimes im- 
plied that it was inconsistent with openness ; though there seems no 
reason why a loud man should not be given to concealment of anything 
except his own voice unless it can be shown that Holy Writ has placed 
the seat of candor in the lungs, 

MiODLKMAKCU. 



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February 23. 

Mrs. Emma Wilkird, 1787. 



February 24. 



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February 25. 



Mrs. Bulstrode's naive Avay of conciliating piety and woiidliness, 
tlie notliingness of tliis life and the desirability of cut glass, the con- 
sciousness at once of filthy rags and the best damask was not a sufficient 
relief from the weight of her husband's invariable seriousness. 

MiDDLEMARCn. 



February 26. 



Bright February da3-s have a stronger charm of hope about them than 
any other days in tire year. One likes to pause in the mild rays of the 
sun, and think th.at tiie beautiful 3'ear is all before one. The birds seem 
to feel just the same : their notes are as clear as tlie clear air. 

Adam Bkde. 



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February 25. 



February 26. 



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February 27. 



Oh, there's pleasure in knowing one's not a fool, like half the people 

one sees about. And managing one's husband is some pleasure ; and 

doing all one's business well. Wh}', if I 've onl3'got some orange-flowers 

to candy, I shouldn't like to die till I see them all right. 

Felix Holt. 



February 28. 



Think you I felt myself a prima donna ? 
No, but a happy, spiritual star 
Such as old Dante saw, wrought in a rose 
Of light in Paradise, whoseonly self 
Was consciousness of glory wide-diffused, 
Music, life, power — I moving in the midst 
With a sublime necessity of good. 



Armgart. 



62 



February 27, 



February 28. 
Racbel, IS.'l. 



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February 29. 



When I was young, Mr. Lydgate, there never was any question about 
right and wrong. We l<new our catechism, and that was enough ; we 
learned our creed and our duty. Everj' respectable Church person had 
the same opinions. But now, if you speal< out of the prayer-book 
itself, you are liable to be contradicted. 

MlDDLEMARCH. 



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February 29. 



The wintiy da3's passed for Romola as the white ships pass one who 
is standing lonelj' on the shore — passing in silence and sameness, and 
yet each bearing a hidden burden of coming change. 

ROMOLA. 



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We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no child- 
hood in it, — if it were not the earth where the same flowers came up again 
every spring that we used to gather with our tiny fingers as we sat lisp- 
ing to ourselves on the grass, — the same hips and haws on the autumn 
hedges, — the same red-l)reasts that we used to call " God's birds " be- 
cause they did no harm to the precious crops. 

The Mill on the Floss. 



Mapxh 1, 



Natdre has her language, and she is not unveracious ; but we don't 
know all the intricacies of her syntax just yet, and in a hasty reading we 
may happen to extract the very opposite of her real meaning. 

Adam Bede. 



March 2. 



I II AYE often seen the image of my earl}' youth, when it seemed to rae 
astonishing that the philosophers had left so many difficulties unsolved, 
and that so man}^ great themes had raised no great poet to treat them. 

THEOPiiiiASTUs Such. 



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March 1. 



March 2. 



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March 3, 



On, Aristotle ! if 3-011 had had the advantage of being " the freshest 

modern " instead of the greatest ancient, would you not have mingled 

j-our praise of metaphorical speech, as a sign of high intelligence, with a 

lamentation that intelligence so rarely shows itself in speech without a 

metaphor, — that we seldom declare what a thing is except by saying 

it is something else ? 

The Mill ox the Floss. 



March 4. 

I THINK we had the chief of all love's joys 
Onl}- in knowing that we loved each otlier. 

Slowly she moA'cd to choose sul)limer pain : 
Yearning yet shrinking, wrought upon by awe. 
Her own brief life seeming a little isle 
Remote through visions of a wider world 
With fates close crowded. 

The Spanish Gvpsy 
70 



March 3. 



March 4. 
Rebecca Graty, 1781 ; Baroness Biinscn, 1791, 



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March 5. 



Ay, ay, you 're right there : there 's allaj's two 'pinions ; there 's the 

'pinion a man has of hirasen, and there's the 'pinion other folks have on 

him. There'd be two 'pinions about a cracked bell, if the bell could hear 

itself. 

Silas Marner. 



March 6. 

The way in which I have come to the conclusion that human nature is 
lovable — the way I have learnt something of its deep pathos, its sub- 
lime masteries — has been by living a great deal among people more or 
less commonplace and vulgar, of whom you would perhaps hear nothing 
very surprising if you were to inquire about them in the neighborhoods 

where they dwelt. 

Adam Bede. 

72 



March 5. 



March 6. 



73 



March 7. 



It is undeniable that a too intense consciousness of one's Icinsliip with 

all frailties and vices undermines the active lieroism which battles against 

wrong. 

Theophrastus Such. 



March S. 

Yet surel3% sureh' the only true knowledge of our fellow-man is that 
which enables us to feel with him, — which gives a fine ear for the heart- 
pulses that are beating under the mere clothes of circumstance and 
opinion. Our subtlest analysis of schools and sects must miss the 
essential truth, unless it be lit up by the love that sees, in all forms of 
human thought and work, the life and death struggles of separate human 

beings. 

Janet's Repentance. 

74 



March 7. 



March 8. 



75 



March 9. 



We get tired of a " manner" in conversation as in painting, when one 
theme after another is treated with the same lines and touches. I begin 
with a liking for an estimable master, but b}' the time he has stretched 
his iuterpi'etation of the world unbrokcnl}' along a palatial gallerj-, I have 
had wliat the cautious Scotch mind would call " enough" of him. 

TiniOPHRASTus Such. 



March 10. 



He thought all loveliness was lovelier, 
She crowning it ; all goodness credible, 
Because of the great trust her goodness bred. 

The Spanish Gypsi 



76 



March 9. 



March 10. 
Queen Louise, of Prussia, 1776. 



77 



March 11. 



" Ah ! " said Mrs. Poyser, " an' it's poor work allays settiii' the dead 

above the livin'. We shall all on us be dead sometime, I reckon ; it 'iid 

be better if folks 'ud make much on us beforehand, i'stid o' beginnin' when 

we are gone. It's but little good you'll do a-watering the last 3'ear's 

crop." 

Adam Bede. 



March 12. 
The calendar hath not an evil day 
For souls made one by love, and even death 
Were sweetness, if it came like rolling waves 
While they two clasped each other and foresaw 

No life apart. Middlemarch. 

— ^np — 

It lay in the probabilities of things that gentr3''s intellects should be 

peculiar : since they had not to get their own living, the good Lord might 

have economized in their case that common sense which others were so 

much in need of. Felix Holt. 

78 



March 11. 



March 12 
Lady Hester Stanhope, 1776; Mary Howitt, 1799. 



79 



March 13. 



For I have observed this remarkable coincidence, that the select 
natures who pant after the ideal, and find nothing in pantaloons or petti- 
coats great enough to command their reverence or love, are curiously 

in iniison with the narrowest and pettiest. 

Adam Bede. 



March 14. 



He felt for the first time that loving awe in the presence of noble 
womanhood which is, perhaps, something like the worship paid of old to 
a great nature-goddess, who was not all-knowing, but whose life and 
powei" were something deeper and more primordial than knowledge. 

KOMOLA. 



80 



March 13. 



March 14. 
Aspasia, about 460 B. C. 



81 



March 15, 



Hkat is a great agent and a useful word, but considered as a means of 

explaining tlie universe it requires an extensive knowledge of ditferences ; 

and as a means of explaining character, " sensitiveness" is in much the 

same predicament. 

Daniel Dkkonda. 



March 16. 

We will watch the spheres, 

And see the constellations bend and plunge 

Into a depth of being where our eyes 

Hold them no more. 

TuK Spanish Gypsy. 

He was gradually discovering the delight there is in frank kindness 
and companionship between a man and a woman who have no passion to 
hide or confess. 

MiDDLEMAKCH. 

82 



March 15. 



March 16. 

Caroline Herschel, 1750; Miss Berry, Horace Walpole's friend, 1763. 



83 



March 17. 

Like the sweet blackbird's fragmentary chant, 
Yet wakes again, with varying rise and fall, 
In songs that seem emergent memories 
Prompting brief utterance. 

Yes, dearest, it is true. 

Speech is the broken light upon the depth 

Of the unspoken ; even your loved words 

Float in the larger meaning of your voice 

As something dimmer. 

The Spanish Gypsy. 

March IS. 



And rank for her meant duty, various, 
Yet equal in its worth, done worthily. 
Command was service : humblest service done 
By willing and discerning souls was glory. 

Agatha. 



84 



March 17. 
Jean Ingelow, 1830, 



March 18. 
Princess Louise, wife of Marquis of Lome. 



85 



March 19. 

But uow, she was glowing like a dark-tipped yet delicate ivory-tinted 
flower in the warm sunlight of content, thinking of an}" possible grief as 
part of that life with Deronda which she could call b^'no other name than 
good, Mirah was ready to believe that he had been a rescuing angel 
to many besides herself. The only wonder was that she, among thsm 
all, was to have the bliss of being continually by his side. 

Daniel Deuonda. 



March 20. 

She stretched forth 
Her tender hands, that oft had lain in his. 
The hands he knew so well, that sight of them 
Seemed like their touch. 

The backward years — 
O she would not forget them — would not drink 
Of waters that brought rest, while he far off 
Remembered. — " Father, I renounced the joy, 
You must forgive the sorrow." Middlemakch. 

8G 



March 19. 
Margaret Klopstock, 1728. 



March 20. 
Heloise, about 1102. 



87 



March 21. 



In fact there was a general sense in the Featherstone blood that every- 
bod}' must watch everA'body else, and that it would be well for ever3body 
else to reflect that the Almighty was watching him. 

MlDDLEMARCH. 



March 22. 



A SOFT light fell from the upper windows on sleek brown or gra}^ flanks 
and haunches ; on mild equine faces looking out with active nostrils over 
the varnished brown boarding, on the ha}' hanging from racks and on 
the pale-golden straw scattered or in heaps. 

"Do you take oflT your hat to the horses?" said Grandcourt with a 

slight sneer. " Why not ? " said Deronda. 

Daniel Deronda. 



March 21. 



March 22. 
Rosa Bonheur, 1822. 



89 



March 23. 



As Diuali expressed it, " She was never left to herself, but it was always 
given to her when to keep silence and when to speak." And do we not 
all agree to call rapid thought and nohle impulse by the name of inspira- 
tion ? After our subtlest analysis of the mental process, we must still 
say as Dinah did, that our highest thoughts and our best deeds are all 

given to us. 

Adam Bede. 



March 24. 

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, was speculative and irresolute, and we 
have a great tragedy in consequence. But if his father had lived to a 
good old age, and his uncle had died an early death, we can conceive 
Hamlet's having married Ophelia, and got through life with a reputa- 
tion for sanity, notwithstanding many soliloquies and some moody 
sarcasms towards the fair daughter of Polonius, to say nothing of the 

frankest incivility to his father-in-law. 

The Mill on the Floss. 

90 



March 23. 



March 24. 



91 



March 25. 



A man's mind — wiiat there is of it — has alwaj's the advantage of being 
masculine, — as the smallest birch-tree is of a higher kind than the most 
soaring palm, — and even his ignorance is of a sounder quality. 

MiDDLEMARCH. 



March 26. 



I KNOW it is difficult for people in these instructed times to believe in 
Uncle Pullet's ignorance ; but let them reflect on the remarkable results 
of a great natural faculty under favoring circumstances. And Uncle 
Pullet had a great natural faculty for ignorance. 

The Mili. ox the Floss, 



98 



March 25. 



^^'^^-^^^^ ^cu.cLU, ZudLsA^ , /|?^6 



March 26. 



n 



March 27. 



But was not Mirah to be there ? What furniture can give such a 

finish tearoom as a tender woman's face? And is there an}' bar mo nj' 

of tints tliat has such stirrings of delight as the sweet modulations of her 

voice ? 

Daniel Deronda. 



March 28. 



The strong emotions from which the life of a human being receives a 
new bias win their victory as the sea wins his ; though the advance maj'^ 
be snre, they will often, after a mightier wave than usual, seem to roll 
back so far as to lose all the ground they had made. 

» Janet's Repentance, 



94 



March 2' 



March 28. 



95 



March 29 



What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist 
in the presence of a great calamit}', when all the artificial vesture of our 
life is gone, and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs? 

The Mill ox thk Floss. 



March 30. 



It is a sad weakness in us, after all, that the thought of a man's death 
hallows him anew to us; as if life were not sacred too, — as if it were 
comparativel}' a light thing to fail in love and reverence to the brother 
who has to climb the whole toilsome steep with us, and all our tender- 
ness was due to the one who is spared that hard journe3\ 

Janet's Ivepentance. 



96 



March 29. 



March oO. 



97 



March 31. 



I a:m not sure that the greatest man of his age, if ever that solitary 
superlative existed, could escape unfavorable reflections of himself in 
various small mirrors ; and even Milton, looking for his portrait in a 
spoon, must submit to have the facial angle of a bumi)kin. 

MiDDLEMAKCn. 



98 



March 31. 



09 



She thought it was part of tlie hardship of her life that tliere was laid 
upon her the burden of larger wants than others seemed to feel, — that 
she had to endure this wide, hopeless 3earning for that something, what- 
ever it was, that was greatest and best on this earth. Poor child ! she 
was as lonely in her trouble as if she had been the onh' girl in the civil- 
ized world of that day who had come out of her school-life with a soul 
untrained for inevitable struggles, with much futile information about 
Saxon and other kings of doulitful example, but unhappily quite without 
that knowledge of the inevitable laws within and without her, which, 
governing the habits, becomes morality, and, developing the feelings of 
submission and dependence, becomes religion. 

The Mill on the Floss. 



100 



There are various orders of beaut}' causing men to make fools of 
themselves ; but there is one order of beauty which seems made to turn 
the heads, of men, but even of women. It is a beautj- like tliat of 
kittens, or very small, downy ducks, making gentle, rippling noises with 
their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle and to engage in con- 
scious mischief. 

Hetty's was a spring-tide beaut}^ ; it was the beautv of young, frisk- 
ing things, round-limbed, gambolling, circumventing you by a false air of 
innocence — the innocence of a young star-browed calf, for example, 
that, being inclined for a promenade out of bounds, leads you a severe 
steeple-chase over hedge and ditch, and only comes to a stand in the 
middle of a bog. 

Adam Bhdk. 



101 



April 1. 



But the sweet spring came to Milby notwithstanding : the elm-tops 
were red with buds ; the church-yard was starred with daisies ; the lark 
showered his love-music on the flat fields ; the rainbows hung over the 
dingy town, clothing the ver}' roofs and chimneys in a strange trans- 
figuring beauty. 

Janet's Repentance. 



April 2. 



It 's a strange thing to think of a man as can lift a chair with his 

teeth, and walk fifty miles on end, treml)ling and turning hot and cold at 

only a look from one woman out of all the rest i' the world. It 's a 

mystery we can give no account of; but no more we can of the sprouting 

o' the seed, for that matter. 

Adam Bede. 



102 



April 1 



April 2. 



in;; 



April 3. 
Imagination is always based on a keen vision, a keen consciousness of 
what is and carries tlie store of definite knowledge as material for the 
construction of its inward visions. Tiieophrastus Such. 

— "^^^ — 
For they the ro3'al-hearted women are 
Who nobly love the noblest, yet have grace 
For needy suffering lives in lowliest place, 
Carrying a choicer sunlight in their smile, 
The heavenliest ray that pitietb the vile. 

How Lisa Lovkd the King. 

April 4. 

The creature we help to save, though only a half-reared linnet, bruised 

and lost by the wa3'side — how we watch and fence it, and dote on its 

signs of recovery ! Our pride becomes loving, our self is a not-self for 

whose sake we become virtuous, when we set to some hidden work of 

reclaiming a life from misery, and look out for our triumph in the 

secret joy — " This one is the bettor for me." 

Daniel Dekonda. 



Kl-t 



April 3. 
Harriet Prei^cott Spofford, 183.5; Mary Carpenter, 1807 



April 4 

Dorothea Dix, 1809. 



105 



April 5. 
Sprinkle food before a delicate-eared bird ; there is nothing he would 
more willingly take, yet he keeps aloof, because of his sensiliility to 
checks which to 3'ou are imperceptible. And one man differs from 
another, as we all differ from the Bojesman, in a sensibility to checks 
that come from a variety of needs, spiritual or other. 

Our consciences are not all of the same pattern, an inner deliverance 

of fixed laws : They are the voice of sensil)ilities as various as our 

memories. 

Daniel Dekoxda. 

April 6. 



But always there is seed being sown silently and unseen, and every- 
where there come sweet flowers without our foresight or labor. We 
reap what we sow, but Nature has love over and above that justice, and 
gives us shadow and blossom and fruit that spring from no planting of 

ours. 

Janet's Repentance. 



106 



April o. 



April 6 



April 7. 



The rush of the. water and the booming of the mill bruig a dream}' 

deafness, which seems to heighten the peacefnlness of the scene. They 

are like a great curtain of sound, sliutting one out from tlie world 

beyond. 

The Mill on the Floss. 



April 8. 

In speech and look 
A touch of graceful wildness, as of things; 
Not trained or tamed for uses of the world ; 
Most like the Fauns that roamed in da3's of o!d 
About the listening, whispering woods, and shared 
The subtler sense of silvan ears and eyes 
Undulled by scheming thought. 

Tni: Spanish Gypsy 



10s 



April 7. 



April 8. 
• Bright Eyes," Siizette La Fleche, 1854. 



109 



April 9. 



Happy the man, 3'ou would have thought, whose eye will rest on her 
in the pauses of his fireside reading — whose hot, aching forehead will 
be soothed by the contact of her cool, soft hand — who will recover him- 
self from dejection at his mistakes and failures in the loving light of her 

unreproaching eyes. 

Amos Barton. 



April 10. 

Strange and piteous to think what a centre of wretchedness a delicate 
piece of human flesh like that might be, wrapped round with fine raiment, 
the poor self within her sitting in sick distaste of all things. 

Daniel Deronda. 

A CHIEF misfortune of high birth is that it usually shuts a man out 
from the large sympathetic knowledge of human experience, which 
comes from contact with various classes on their own level. 

Theophrastus Such. 

llu 



April 9 



April 10. 

Queen Hortcuse, of Holland, 1783. 



in 



April 11. 

Society never made the preposterous demand that a man should 
think as much about his own qualifications for making a eliavming girl 
happ}- as he thinks of hers for making himself happy. As if a man 
could choose not onh- his wife, but his wife's husband ! or as if he were 
bound to provide charms for his posterity in his own person ! 

MlDDLEMARCH. 



April 12. 

As for them best Holland sheets, I should repeut buying 'em, only 

they '11 do to lay us out in. An' if you was to die tomorrow, Mr. Tulli- 

ver, they 're mangled beautiful, an' all ready, an' smell o' lavender as it 

'ud be a pleasure to lay them out, an' they lie at the left-hand corner o' 

the big oaken chest, at the back — not as I should trust anybody to look 

'em out but m^'self. 

Thk Mill ox rnr': Floss. 



112 



April 11. 



April 12. 



113 



April 13. 

A TOUNG lad}' of some birth and fortune, who knelt suddenly down 
on a brick floor by the side of a sick laborer, and prayed fervently, as if 
she thought herself living in the time of the Apostles — who had strange 
whims of fastinp- and of sitting up at night to read old theological books ! 
Such a wife might awaken 3-ou some fine mornhig with a new scheme for 
the application of her income. 

MiDDLEMAKGH. 



April 14. 

He dreaded, as if it were a dwelling-place of lost souls, that dead ana- 
tomy- of culture which turns the universe into a mere ceaseless answer to 
queries, and knows, not ever3-thing, but everything else about every- 
thing — as if one should be ignorant of nothing concerning the scent of 
violets except the scent itself, for which one had no nostril. 

Damel Dkuonda. 



114 



April 13. 
Madame Guyon, 104S. 



April 14. 



115 



April 15. 

The saints were cowards who stood b}' to see 
Christ crucified : they should have flung themselves 
Upon the Roman spears, and died in vain — 
The grandest death, to die in vain — for love 
Greater than swap's the forces of the world. 

Thk Spanish Gypsy. 



O memories ! 
O past that is ! 

April 16. 



Two Lovers. 



To he right in great memorable moments, is perhaps the thing we need 
most desire for ourselves. 



What we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and 
present realities — a willing movement of a man's soul with the larger 
sweep of the world's forces — a movement toward a more assured end 
than the chances of a single life. 

Felix Holt. 

IIG 



April 15. 

Mrs. Brown, wife of John Bro\i n, of Ossawottamy. 



April 16. 



117 



April 17. 

The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider 

vision. 

The Mill ox the Floss. 



That subtle result of culture which we call Taste was subdued by the 
need of far deeper motive ; just as the nicer demands of the palate are 
annihilated by urgent hunger. 

ROMOLA. 

April IS. 



There is a terrible coercion in our deeds which may at first turn the 

honest man into a deceiver, and then reconcile him to the change ; for 

this reason : that the second wrong presents itself to him in the guise of 

the only practicable right. 

Adam Bede. 



118 



April 17. 



April IS. 



119 



April 19 



She felt a deep stillness within. She thirsted for no pleasure ; she 

craved no worldly good. She saw the years to come stretch before her 

like an autumn afternoon, filled with resigned memor}'. Life to her 

coukl nevermore have an}' eagerness ; it was a solemn service of gratitude 

and patient effort. 

Janet's Kepentance, 



April 20. 

She uad the essential attributes of a lady — high veracity, delicate 
honor in her dealings, deference toothers, and refined personal habits. 

Silas Marnek. 



It is terrible, the keen bright eye of a woman, when it has once been 

turned with admiration on what is severely true ; but then the severel}' 

true rarely comes within its range of vision. 

Felix Holt. 

120 



April 19. 

Liicreria ll:ii),l,,lf Oarficld. 18^2. 



April 20. 

Joanna Baillie, 1762. 



]?1 



April 21. 

This was the work of Jabal ; he began 

The pastoral life, and, sire of joys to be. 

Spread the sweet ties that bind the famih'. 

O'er dear, dumb souls that thrilled at man's caress, 

And shared his pain with patient helpfulness. 

The Legend of Jlbal. 



April 22. 

She was one of those satisfactory creatures whose intercourse has the 
charm of discover}' ; whose integrity- of faculty and expression begets a 
wish to know what they will sa}' on all subject's, or how they will perform 
whatever they undertake ; so that they end by raising not only a con- 
tinual expectation, but a continual sense of fulfilment. 

Daxiel Deronda. 



122 



April 21. 



April 22. 
Madame de Stael, 176C. 



12£ 



April 23. 
No great deed is done 
B}' falterers who ask for certainty. 



The Spanish Gypsy. 



The world has made up its mind rather contemptuously about those 
who were deaf to Columbus. Middlemarch. 

I WILL not feed on doing great tasks ill, 
Dull the world's sense with mediocrity, 
And live by trash that smothers excellence, 
One o'ift I had that i-anked me with the best. 



Ar.mgart. 



April 24. 



The uncertainty of things is a text rather too wide and obvious for 

fruitful application ; aud to discourse of it is, as one may sa^', to bottle 

up the air and make a present of it to those who ai'e already standing 

out of doors. 

Felix Holt. 



121- 



April 23. 

Queen Isabella, of Castile, 1451 ; Charlotte Bronte, 1816. 



April 24. 



]2l 



April 25. 

I will so live they shall remember me 
For deeds of such divine beneficence 
As rivers have, that teach men what is good 
By blessing them. 

The Spanish Gypsy. 

Heva dog, Miss — They're better friends nor an}' Christian. 

The Mill on the Floss. 

April 26. 

Oh, I can live unmated, but not live 

Without the bliss of singing to the world, 

And feeling all my world respond to me. 

Armgakt. 

Heaven knows what would become of our sociality if we never visited 
people we speak ill of; we should live like Egj'ptian hermits in crowded 
solitudes. 

Janet's Repentance, 

126 



April 25 
Baroness Burdett-Coutts, 1814. 



April 26. 

Alice Caiy, 1822. 



127 



April 27. 

A self disturbed 

By budding growtlis oi" reason, premature, 

That breed disease. 

The Spamsh Gyps v. 



While this is tlie social air in which mortals begin to breathe, there 
will be collisions such as those in Dorothea's life, where great feelings 
will take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion. 

MlDDLEMAKCH. 

April 28. 



That 's what a man wants in a woman mostly ; lie wants to make sure 

o' one fool as '11 tell him he 's wise. But there 's some men can do wi'- 

out that — they think so much o' themselves a' read}- ; an' that 's how it 

is there 's old bachelors. 

Adam Bede. 



128 



April 27. 

Mary WoUstonecraft Godwin, 17S9. 



April 28. 



129 



April 29. 

One may prefer fresh eggs though laid ]\y a fowl of the meanest ini- 

derstanding, but why fresh sermons ? 

Theophhastus Srcn. 

A sermon heard with all the more satisfaction because it had been 
heard for the twentieth time ; for to minds on the Shepperton level, it is 
repetition, not novelt}', that produces the strongest effect ; and phrases, 
like tunes, are a long time making themselves at home in the brain. 

Mk. Gilfill's Loye-Story. 
April 30. 

The firmaments of daisies since to me 
Have had those mornings in their opening ej'es, 
The bunched cow^slip's pale transparency', 
Carries that sunshine of sweet memories. 

Brother and Sister. 

The soul without still helps the soul within. 
And its deft magic ends wliat we begin. 

The Legend of Jubal. 

130 



April 29. 



April 30. 



131 



It was in the prime 
Of the sweet spring-time, 
In the linnet's throat 
Trembled the love-note, 
And the love-stirred air 
Thrilled the blossoms there. 
Little shadows danced, 
Each a tiny elf, 
Happy in large light 
And the thinnest self. 

The Spanish Gypsy. 



132 



1 MIGHT mention all the divine charms of a bright, spring day, 
bnt if you had never in your life utterly forgotten yourself in straining 
your eyes after the mounting lark, or in wandering through the still 
lanes when the fresh-opened blossoms fill them with a sacred, silent 
beauty like that of fretted aisles, where would be the use of ni}' descrip- 
tive catalogue ? I could never make you know what I meant by a briglit, 
spring day. 



132 



May 1. 



Capable of conceiving and choosing a life's task with far-off issues, 
yet capable of the unapplauded heroism which turns off the road of 
achievement at the call of the neai'er dut}- whose effect lies within the 
beatings of the hearts that are close to us, as the hunger of the un- 
fledged bird to Ihe breast of its parent. 

Daniel Deronda. 



May 2. 



But 3'ou — you claimed tlie universe ; nought less 

Then all existence working in sure tracks 

Towards 3'our supremacy. The wheels might scathe 

A myriad destinies — nay, must perforce — 

But 3'ours tiic}' must keep clear of. 

Armgart. 



134 



May 1. 

Fidelia Fisk, 1816. 



May 2. 
Empress Catherine II., of Russia, 1729. 



135 



May 3. 



Our delight in the sunshine on the deep-bladed grass today might be 

no more than the faint perception of wearied souls, if it were not for the 

sunshine and the grass in the far-off ^ears, which still live in us, and 

transform our perception into love. 

The Mill on the Floss. 



May 4. 

Behold my lady's carriage stop the wa}'. 

With powdered lacque}' and with champing bay ; 

She sweeps the matting, treads the crimson stair. 

Her arduous function solely " to be there," 

Like Siriiis rising o'er the silent sea. 

She hides her heart in lustre loftily. 

Daniel Deronda. 



136 



May 3. 



May 4. 
* Lad}' Martha Washington, 1732. 



137 



May 5. 

All the world was hers. 

Splendor was but the herald trumpet note 

Of Jier imperial coming. 

The Spanish G\tsy. 

The great story of this world reduced for her to the little tale of her 

own existence — dull obscurity everywhere, except where the keen light 

fell on the narrow track of her own lot, wide onl}- for a woman's 

anguish. 

Felix Holt. 

May 6. 

And for my part, I can call no age absolutely unpoetic ; how should it 
be so, since there are always children to whom the acorns and the swal- 
low's eggs are a wonder To be quite fair toward the ages, a 

little ugliness as well as beauty must be allowed to each of them, a 
little implicit poetry even to those which echoed loudest with servile, 

pompous and trivial prose. 

Theopiikastus Such. 



138 



May 5. 

Empress Eugenie, 1826. 



May 6. 



139 



May 7. 



The temptations of beauty are much dwelt upon ; but I fancy they 

only bear the same relations to those of ugliness, as the temptation to 

excess at a feast, where the delights are varied for e3'e and ear as well as 

palate, bears to the temptations that assail the desperation of hunger. 

Does not the Hunger Tower stand as the type of the utmost trial to 

what is human in us? 

The Mill ox the Floss. 



May 8. 

But, for the point of wisdom, I would choose 
To know the mind that stirs l)etween the wings 
Of bees and budding wasps, or fills the woods 
With myriad murmurs of responsive sense 
And true-aimed impulse, rather than to know 
The thoughts of warriors. 

The Spanish Gypsy. 



140 



May 



May S. 



141 



May 9. 



^Iany legends were afterwards told about the blessed Lad}' who came 
over the sea, but they were legends by which all who heard might know 
that in times gone by a woman had done beautiful, loving deeds there, 
rescuing those who were ready to perish. 

ROJIOLA. 



May 10. 

Though I were happy, throned beside the king, 

I should be tender to each little thing ; 

With hurt warm breast, that had uo speech to tell 

Its inward pangs, and I would soothe it well 

With tender touch and with a low, soft moan 

For company. 

How Lisa Loved the King. 



142 



May 9. 
* Florence Nightingale, 1820. 



May 10. 
Mrs. Emily Warren Appleton, Foundress, of the Boston Society P. C. A., 1818. 



143 



May 11. 



A FOUNTAIN mere, vase-shapen and broad-lipped. 
Where timorous birds alight with tim' feet, 
And hesitate and bend wise listening ears, 
And fly away again with undipped beak. 

The Spanish Gypsy. 



May 12. 

She minds what she is doing, and that is a point in a woman. A 
man whose life is of an}' Value should think of his wife as a nurse ; that 
is what I should do, if I married ; and I believe I have lived single long 
enough not to make a mistake in that line. Some men must marry to 
elevate themselves a Utile, but when I am in need of that, I hope 
some one will tell me so — I hope some individual will apprise me of the 
fact. 

MlDDLEMAPCH. 

144 



May 11. 



CLtCWvCA. /u* i<Lb4cci»n.*.jly i r^ \c ^ 



May 12. 



145 



May 13. 

But you were born to reign. 

'T is a compulsion of a higher sort, 

Whose fetters are the net Invisible 

That holds all life together. Royal deeds 

May make long destinies for multitudes, 

And 3-ou are called to do them. You belong 

Not to the pett}' round of circumstance 

That makes a woman's lot. 

The Spanish Gypsy. 

May 14. 

What sort of earth or heaven would hold any spiritual wealth in it fur 
souls pauperized by inaction ? If one firmament has no stimulus for our 
attention and awe, I don't see how four would have it. 



A CHANGE came over her face — that subtle change in nerve and 
muscle which will sometimes give a child-like expression even to the 
elderl}' ; it is the subsidence of self-assertion. 

Daniel Deronda. 

146 



May 13. 
Maria Theresa, 1717. 



May 14. 

Mrs. Delany, 1700. 



147 



May 15. 



We are often startled by the severity of mild people on exceptional 

occasions ; the reason is, that mild people are most likely to be nnder 

the 3^oke of traditional impressions. 

Adam Bede. 



May 16. 

Like all 3'outhful creatures, she felt as if the present conditions of 
choice were final. And in one sense she was under no illusion. It is 
only in that freshness of our time that the choice is possible which gives 
unity to life, and makes the memory a temple where all relics and all 
votive offerings, all worship and all grateful joy are an unbroken history 
sanctified bv one religion. Felix Holt. 



You always see what nobody else sees, yet you never see what is quite 

plain. MiDDLEMAROH. 

148 



May 15. 



May 16. 
Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, 1S04 



149 



May 17. 



If we had lost oui- own chief good, other people's good would remain, 
and that is worth trjing for. Some can be happy. I seemed to see 
that more clearly than ever, when I was most wretched. I can hardly 
think how I could have borne the trouble if that feeling hud not come to 
me to make strength. 

MiDDLEMARCH. 



May 18. 



To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern that no shade of 
quality escapes it, and so quick to feel that discernment is but a hand 
playing with finel3'-ordered variety on the chords of emotion — a soul in 
which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes 
back as a new organ of knowledge. 

MiDDLEMAUCH. 



150 



May 17; 
Lady Byron, 1792 



May is, 
EIizal)cth Barrett Browning, 1809. 



151 



May 19. 



Full souls are double mirrors, making still 
An endless vista of fair things before 
Repeating them behind. 



A Minor Prophet. 



May 20. 

This brave, active man, who would have hastened toward any danger 
or toil to rescue Hett}^ from an apprehended wrong or misfortune, felt 
himself powerless to contemplate irremediable evil and suffering. Ener- 
getic natures, strong for all strenuous deeds, will often rush away from a 
hopeless sufferer, as if they were hard-hearted. It is the overmastering 

•sense of pain that drives them. 

Adajvi Bede. 



152 



May 19. 
Mrs. Jameson, 1797. 



May 20. 



153 



May 21. 
It seems to mo that beauty is part of the finished language by which 
goodness speaks. Romola. 

Her profile, as well as her stature and bearing, seemed to gain the 
more dignity from her plain garments, Avhich by the side of provincial 
fashion, gave her the impressiveness of a fine quotation from the Bible — 
or from one of our elder poets — in a paragraph of today's newspaper. 

How can we live and thinic that anyone has trouble — piercing 
trouble — and we could help them and never try. Middlemarch. 

May 22. 



That solid, imperturbable ease and good-humor which is infectious, 
and, like great grassy hills in the sunshine, quiets even an irritated 
egoism, and makes it rather ashamed of itself. 

MlDDLEMAKCII. 



15i 



May 21. 

Duchess of Sutherland, 1806; Mrs. Elizabeth Fry, 1780. 



May 22. 



155 



May 23. 

She was a creature full of eager, passionate longings, for all that was 
beautiful and glad ; thirsty for all knowledge ; with an ear straining 
after dreamy music that died » away and would not come near to her ; 
with a blind, unconscious yearning for something that would link to- 
gether the wonderful impressions of this mysterious life, and give her 
soul a sense of home in it. The Mill on the Floss. 

A SENSE of contributing to form the world's opinions makes conver- 
sation particularly livel}'. Middlemarch. 

May 24. 

A woman's rank 
Lies in the fulness of her womanhood ; 
Therein alone she is royal. Armgart. 



In this, her woman's lot was perfect ; that the man she loved was her 
hero ; that her woman's passion and her reverence for rarest goodness 
rushed together in an undivided current. Felix Holt. 

156 



May 23. 
Margaret Fuller, 1810. 



May 24. 
Queen Victoria, 1819. 



lol 



May 25. 



It is for this rare, precious quality of truthfulness that I delight in 
many Dutch paintings, wliich lofty-minded people despise. I find a 
source of delicious sympathy in these faithful pictures of a monotonous, 
homely existence, which has been the fate of so many more among my 
fellow mortals than a life of pomp or of absolute indigence, of tragic suf- 
fering or of world stirring actions. Adam Bedk. 



May 26. 



She did not want to deck herself with knowledge — to wear it loose 
from the nerves and blood that fed her action. . . But something she 
3^earned for by which her life might be filled with action at once rational 
and ardent. Middlemarch. 



158 



May 25. 



May 26. 
Lady Mavy Wortley Montagu, 1689. 



159 



May 27. 
Who can all at once describe a human being . 



Lo ! she turns — immortal youth 
Wrought to mortal stature, 
Fresh as starlight's aged truth — 
Mauy-uamed Nature. 



Daniel Deronda. 



MiDDLEMARCH. 

May 28. 



Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. Nature, that great 
tragic dramatist, knits us together by bone and muscle, and divides us 
by the subtler web of our brains ; blends yearning and repulsion, ani 
ties us by our heart-strings to the beings that jar us at every movement. 

Adam Bede. 



160 



May 27. 
Julia Waj-d Howe, 1819. 



May 28. 



ici 



May 29. 

I MEANT, all life is but poor mockery ; 
Action, place, power, the visible wide world 
Are tattered masquerading of this self, 
This pulse of conscious myster}' ; all change. 
Whether to high or low, is change of rags. 

The Spanish Gypsy. 

Certainly if a bad-tempered man can be admirably virtuous, he must 

be so under extreme difficulties. 

Theophrastus Such. 

May 30. 

Even people whose lives have been made various by learning, some- 
times find it hard to keep a fast hold on their habitual views of life, on 
their faith in the Invisible — nay, on the sense that their past joys and 
sorrows are a real experience, when they are suddenly transported to a 
new land, where the beings around them know nothing of their history, 
and share none of their ideas, where their mother Earth shows another 
lap, and human life has other forms than those on which their souls have 

been nourished. 

Silas Marner. 

162 



M^vY 29. 
Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, 1660. 



May 30. 



163 



May 31. 



Wife. "What are the Madicojurabras and Zuzitotzuras? I never 
heai\l you talk of them before. What use can it be troubling yourself 
about such things ? " 

Husband. " That is the way Julia ! That is the way wives alienate 
their husbands, and make any hearth pleasanter to him than his own." 

Theophrastus Such. 



1G4 



May 31. 



165 



But it is almo'":t certain that 3'ou,' too, have been in love — perhaps 
even more than once, though you ma}' not choose to say so to all your lady 
friends ; if so, you will no more think the slight words, the timid looks, 
the tremulous touches, by which two human souls approach each other 
gradually, like two little quivering rain streams before they mingle into 
one, than you will think the first-detected signs of coming spring trivial. 
Those slight words and looks and touches are part of the soul's lan- 
guage, and the finest language is chiefl}' made up of unimposing words 
such as "light," " sound," " stars," " music" — words really not worth 
looking at, or hearing in themselves ; it is only that they happen to be 
the signs of something unspeakably great and beautiful. 

Adam Bede. 



166 



3 

There was one time of the year which was held in Raveloe to be 
especially suitable for a wedding. It was when the great lilacs and 
laburnums in the old-fashioned gardens showed their golden and purple 
wealth above the lichen-tinted walls, and when there were calves still 
young enough to want bucketfuls of fragrant milk. 

People were not so busy then as they must become when the full 
cheese-making and the mowing had set in ; and besides it was a time 
when a bridal dress could be worn with comfort and seen to advantage. 

Silas Marxer. 



167 



June 1. 



In the screening time 
Of purple blossoms, when the petals crowd 
And softly crush like cherub cheeks in heaven, 
Who thinks of greenly-withered fruit and worms ? 



Tun Spanish Gypsy. 



June 2. 



All honor and reverence to the divine beauty of form ! Let us culti- 
vate it to the utmost in men, women and children — in our gardens and 
in our houses ; but let us love that other beauty, too, which lies in no 
secret of proportion, but in the secret of deep, human sympathy. 

Adam Bede. 



168 



June 1. 

7 ^ 



June 2 



169 



June 3. 



Mr. Irwine was like a good meal o' A'ictnal — 3'ou were the better for 
him without thinking on it ; and Mr. Rvde was like a dose o' phj'sic — 
he griped you and worrited you, and after all he left 3'ou much the same. 

AdjUM Bede. 



June 4. 

And now above them pours a wondrous voice 
(Such as Greek reapers heard in Sicil^') 
With wounding rapture in it, like love's arrows ; 
And clear upon clear air as colored gems 
Dropped in a crystal cup of water pure, 
Fall words of sadness, simple, lyrical. 

The Spanish Gypsy. 



170 



June 3. 



June 4. 
Sappho, about 610 B. C. 



171 



June h. 

Yet love is not quite even, 
For feeble creatures, little birds and fawns, 
Are shaken more by fear, while large, strong things 
Can bear it stoutly. So we women still 
Are not well dealt with — yet would I choose to be 
Fedalma loving Silva. 

The Spanish Gypsy. 



June 6. 

There are faces which nature charges with a meaning and a pathos 

not belonging to the single human soul that flutters beneath them, but 

speaking the joys and sorrows of foregone generations. Eyes that tell 

of deep love which doubtless has been and is somewhere, but not paired 

with these eyes ; just as a national language may be instinct with poetry 

unfelt by the lips that use it. 

Adam Bede. 



172 



June 5. 



June 6. 



1 7;! 



June 



Is it out of the question tiiat we should entertain some scruple about 
mixing our own flavor, as of the too cheap and insistent nutmeg, with that 
of every great writer, and every great subject — especiall}' when our 
flavor is all we have to give, the matter or knowledge having been 
already given by somebody' else ? 

Theoi'iiuastus Such. 



June S. 

O God, we know not yet 

If bliss itself is not young misery 

AVith fangs swift growing. 

The Spanish (ivpsv. 

But it was not entire!}' out of devotion to her future husband that she 
wislied to know Latin and Greelv. Those provinces of masculine Ivuowl- 
edge seemed to her a standing ground from which all truth could be seen 
more trui}-. 

MiDOI.EMAHCH. 

174 



June 7. 



(XLcl ^^ajuu^. IS-^i^. 



June S. 
Lady Jane Gra}-, 1,537. 



175 



June 9. 



These gems have life in them ; their colors speak, 
Say what words fail of. So do many things : 
The scent of jesamine, and the fountain's plash, 
The moving shadows on the far-off hills, 
The slanting moonlight and our clasping hands. 



The Spanish Gypsy. 



June 10. 



When the Bible 's such a big book, an' thee canst read all thro 't, an' 

ha' the pick o' the texes, I canna think why thee dostna pick better 

words as donna mean so much more nor they say. Adam does na pick 

pick a that'n ; I can understan' the tex as he 's alias's a-sayin', " God 

helps them as helps theirsens." 

Adam Bede. 



176 



June 9. 



June 10. 



177 



June 11. 



Rosamond was particularly forcible by means of that mild persistence 
which, as we know, enables a white, soft, living substance to make its 



way in spite of opposing rock. 



MiDDI.EMARCH. 



June 12. 

The faith that life on earth is being shaped 
To glorious ends, that order, justice, love. 
Mean man's completeness, mean etfect as sure 
As roundness in the dew-drop — that great faith 
Is but the rushing and expanding stream 
Of thought, of feeling, fed by all the past. 



A MixoK Prophet. 



178 



June 11. 



June 12 
Harriet Martineau, 1802. 



17!) 



June 13. 

Her look was something like that of a fawn, or other gentle animal, 

before it turns to run awa}' ; no blush, no special alarm, but only some 

timidity which j'et could not hinder her from a long look before she 

turned. 

Daniel Deuonda. 

^» 

That moment will not come again ; applause 
Ma}' come and plenty ; but the first, first draught ! 
Music has sounds for it : I know no words. 

Akmgart. 

June 14. 



It is more than a woman's love that moves us in a woman's ej'es — it 

seems to be a far-off', mighty love that has come near to us, and made 

speech for itself there ; the rounded neck, the dimpled arm, move us by 

something more than their prettiness, by their close kinship with all we 

have known of tenderness and peace. 

Adaji Bede. 



180 



June 13 

Fanny Burney, 1752. 



June 14. 



181 



June 15. 

A CRYSTAL mirror to the life around, 

Flashing the comment keen of simple fact 

Defined in words ; lending brief, lyric voice 

To grief and sadness ; hardly taking note. 

Of difference betwixt his own and others ; 

But rather singing as a listener 

To the deep moans, the cries, the wild, strong joys 

Of universal Nature. 

The Spanish Gypsy. 

June 16. 



It 's the same with love and happiness as with sorrow — the more we 
know of it the better we can feel what other people's lives are, or might 
be, and so we shall onl}^ be more tender to 'em and wishful to help 'em. 

Adam Bede. 



183 



June 15. 
Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1812. 



June 16. 



183 



June 17. 



It is this living force of sentiment in common which makes a national 

consciousness. Nations so moved will resist conquest with the very 

breasts of their women, will pay their millions and their blood to abolish 

slavery, will share privation in famine and all calamitv, will produce 

poets to sing " some great stor}' of a man," and thinkers whose theory 

will bear the test of tlie action. 

Theophkastus Such. 



June 18.. 



This afternoon the dog-roses were tossing out their pink wreaths, the 
nightshade was in its 3'ellow and purple glory, the pale honey-suckle 
grew out of reach, peeping high up out of a holly-bush, and, over all, an 
ash or a sycamore every now and then threw its shadow across the path. 

Adam Bede. 



184 



June 1' 



June IS. 



I8i 



June 10. 



But I must observe that goodness is of a modest nature, easily dis- 
couraged, and when mucli elbowed in early life, is apt to retire into ex- 
treme privac}', so that it is more easil}' believed in by those who construct 
a selfish old gentleman theoreticall}^ than b}^ those who form the narrow- 
est judgments based on his personal acquaintance. 

MlDDLEMARCII. 



June 20. 

The finest child-like faces have this consecrating power, and make us 

shudder anew at all the grossness and basel3^-wrought griefs of the world, 

lest the}- should enter here and defile. 

Daniel Deijonda. 



He's eighty-three, you know. It's really an unconscionable age. 
It 's only women who have a right to live as long as that. 

Adam Bede. 

186 



June 19. 



June 20. 

Mrs. BarbauUl, 174:5. 



is; 



June 21, 



And the women, he observed, could never do anything but put finger 
in eye at a wedding. Even Mrs . Poyser could not trust herself to speak as 
the neighbors shook hands with her ; and Lisbcth began to cry in the 
face of the verj' first person who told her she was getting 3"oung again. 

Adaai Brdk. 



June 22. 



If there must be women to make trouble in the world, it's but fair 

there should be women to be comforters under it ; and she 's one — she 's 

one. It's a pity she 's a Methodist; but there's no getting a woman 

without some foolishness or other. 

Adam Bedk. 



188 



June 21. 



June 22. 



189 



June 23. 

All men who watched 
Lost her regretfully, then drew content 
From thought tlmt she must quickly come again, 
And filled the time with striving to be near. 

Deep despair 
Fills all your tones as with slow agony, 
Speak words that narrow anguish to some shape ; 
Tell me what dread is close before you? 

The Spanish Gypsy. 

June 24. 



There is a charm of eye and lip which comes with every little phrase 
that certifies delicate preception or fine judgment, with evei-y unosten- 
tatious word or smile that shows a heart awake to others ; and no sweep 
of garment or turn of figure is more satisfying than that which enters as 
a restoration of cofidence that one person is present on whom no inten- 
tion will be lost. 

Daniel Deronda. 



190 



June 23.. 
Empress Josephine, 1763. 



June 2^ 



191 



June 25. 



For in the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocation 
in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as the tie 
of their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape 
their own deeds and alter the world a little. Tlie story of their coming 
to be shapen after the average is hardly ever told even in their con- 
sciousness. 

MlDI)I,EMARCH. 



June 26. 

At the gate there was half the dairy of cows, standing one behind the 
other, extremely slow to understand that their large bodies might be in 
the way ; at the far gate thei'e was the mare holding her head over the 
bars, and, beside her, the liver-coloi'cd foal, with its head toward its 
mother's flank, apparently still much embarrassed by its own straddling 
existence. 

Adam Bedk. 



192 



June 25. 



June 26. 



193 



June 27, 



My lord, I will be frank, there 's no such thing 
As naked manhood. If the stars look down 
On any mortal of our shape, whose strength 
Is to judge all things without preference, 
He is a monster, not a faitiiful man. 

The Spanish Gypsy. 



June 28. 



Eyes that could see her on this summer-day 
Might find it liard to turn another way. 
She had a pensive i^eaut}' ; yet not sad ; 
Rather, like minor cadences that glad 
The hearts of little birds among spring boughs. 

How Lisa Lovko thk King 



194 



June 27. 



June 28. 



195 



June 29. 



Until one height 
Showed him the ocean, stretched in liquid light, 
And he could hear its multitudinous roar, 
Its plunge and hiss upon the pebbled shore. 



The Legend of .Tubal. 



June 30. 

When one sees a perfect woman, one never thinks of her attributes — 
one is conscious of her presence. 

What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each 
other ? 

Dorothea herself had no dreams of being praised above other women, 
feeling that there was always something better which she might have done 
if she had been better and known better. 

MiDDLEMARCH. 

196 



June 29. 
Celia Thaxter, 183.5. 



k^tijLi^ 'jCc^cCuAU^ i^^r-'/ccrrTTzC JJ^f 



June 30. 
Harriet Winslow Sewall. 



197 



You love the roses — so do I. I wish 
The sky would rain down roses, as they rain 
From off the shaken bush. Why will it not ? 
Then all the valleys would be pink and white, 
And soft to tread on. They would fall as light 
As feathers, smelling sweet ; and it would be 
Like sleeping and yet waking, all at once. 
Over the sea, Queen, where we soon shall go. 
Will it rain roses ? 

The Spanish Gypsy. 



198 



A HUMAN life, I think, should be well rooted in some spot of a native 

land, where it may get the love of tender kinship for the face of earth, 

for the labors men go forth to, for the sounds and accents that haunt it, 

for whatever will give that early home a familiar, unmistakable difference 

amidst the future widening of knowledge : a spot where the definite- 

ness of early memories may be inwrought with affection, and kindly 

acquaintance with all neighbors, even to the dogs and donkeys, may 

spread, not by sentimental effort and reflection, but as a sweet habit of 

the blood. 

Daniel Dekonua. 



109 



July 1. 

A spirit framed 
Too proudly special for obedience, 
Too subtly pondering for mastery : 
Born of a goddess with a mortal sire, 
Heir of flesh-fettered, weak divinity. 
Doom-gifted with long resonant consciousness 
And perilous heightening of the sentient soul, 
But look less curiously ; life itself 
May not express us all, may leave the worst 
And the best, too, like tunes in mechanism 
Never awakened. 

The Spanish Gypsy. 
July 2. 

And as wood-lilies that sweet odors bring, 

Might dream the light that opes their modest eyne 

Was lily-odo)"ed. 

So the miniatuz'e. 
Perplexed of her soul's world, all virgin pure. 
Filled with heroic virtues that bright form. 

How Lisa Loved the King. 

200 



July 1. 
George Sand, 1804. 



July 2. 



201 



July 3. 



Such tragedy' as lies in the conflicts of young souls, hungry for joy, 
under a lot made hard to them, under the dreariness of a home where the 
morning brings no promise with it, and where the unexpectant discontent 
of worn and disappointed parents, weighs on the children like a damp, 
thick air, in Avhich all the functions of life are depressed. 

The Mux on tuk Floss. 



July 4. 



The greatest question in the world is how to give every man a man's 

share in what goes on in life — we want a freeman's share, and that is to 

think and speak and act about what concerns us all, and see whether 

these fine gentlemen who undertake to govern us are doing the best they 

can for us. 

Felix Hon. 



202 



July 3. 

Frederica Soybia Wilbemina, 1709. 



July 4. 



^AtAM^ ^X^tiZ UUCULJ^JU. /<^^^ 



203 



July 5. 



Ant great achievement in acting, or in music, grows with tlie growth. 
Whenever an artist has been able to say " I came, I saw, I conquered," 
it has been at the end of patient practice. Genius at first is little more 
than a great capacity for receiving discipline. 

Daniel Deronda. 



July 6. 

I 'd sooner ha' brewin' day and washin* da}' together than one o' these 
pleasurin' days. There 's no work so tirin' as danglin' about an' starin' 
an' not rightly knowin' what 3'ou 're goin' to do next ; an' keepin' your 
face i' smilin' order like a grocer o' market-day, for fear people should na 
think 3'ou civil enough. An' 3'ou've nothing to show for 't when it's 
done, if it isn't a y allow face wi' eatin' things as disagree. 

Apa.m Bedk. 



204 



July 5. 
Mrs. Siddons, 17o.; 



July 6. 



'm:. 



July 7. 



How should all the apparatus of heaven and earth, from the farthest 

firmament to the tender bosom of the mother who nourished us, make 

poetr}' for a mind that has no movements of awe and tenderness, no 

sense of fellowship which thrills from the near to the distant, and back 

again from the distant to the near? 

Daniel Deuoxda. 



July 8. 

One long summer's day 
An angel entered at the rose-hung gate, 
With skirts pale blue, a brow to quench the pearl, 
Hair soft and blonde as infants', plenteous 
As hers who made the wav}^ lengths once speak 
The grateful worship of a rescued soul. 

Yet her years were few, 
Her outward beauties all in budding-time, 
Her virtues the aroma of the plant 
That dwells in all its being, root, stem, leaf, 
And waits not ripeness. * Aoatiia. 

20G 



July 7. 



July 8. 
Maria White Lowell, 1821. 



207 



July 9. 

These familiar flowers, these well-remembered bird-notes, this sky 
with its fitful brightness, these furrowed and grassy fields, each with a 
sort of a personality given to it by the capricious hedge rows — such 
things as these are the mother tongue of our imagination, the language 
that is laden with all the subtle, inextricable associations, the fleeting 
hours of our childhood left behind thou. 

The Mill on the Floss. 

July 10. 



The angel was a lad}', noble, young, 

Taught in all seemliness that fits a court, 

All love that shapes the mind to delicate, use, 

Yet quiet, lowly as a meek white dove 

That with its presence teaches gentleness. 

Agatha. 



208 



July 9. 
Ann Radcliff, 1764. 



6iL^j)jL^-iH/ 



July 10. 
Margaret Roper, daughter of Sir Tbomas More, and friend of Erasmus, 1503. 



209 



July 11. 



To the far woods he wandered, listenhig, 

And heard the birds their little stories sing 

In notes whose rise and fall seem melted speech — 

Melted with tears, smiles, glances. 

The Legend of Jubal. 



July 12. 

It is more needful that I should have a fibre of sympathy connecting 
me with that vulgar citizen who weighs out my sugar in a vilely-assorted 
cravat and waistcoat, than with the handsomest rascal in red scarf and 
green feathers ; more need that my heart should swell with loving admi- 
ration at some trait of gentle goodness in the faulty people who sit at 
the same hearth with me, than at the deeds of heroes I shall never know 

except by hearsay. 

Adam Bede. 

210 



July 11. 



July 12. 



211 



July 13. 

This sort of passion had nested in the sweet-natured, strong Rex, and 

he had made up his mind to its companionship, as if it had been an 

object supremely- dear, stricken dumb and helpless, and tui-ning all the 

future of tenderness into a shadow of the past. But he had also made 

up his mind that his life was not to be pauperized because he had to 

renounce one sort of joy ; rather he had begun life again with a new 

counting-up of the treasures that remained to him. 

Daniel Deuonb.a. 

July 14. 

P\)R the first time, he felt that he was alone — that da}' after da}-, 
month after month, 3'ear after 3'ear, would have to be lived through with- 
out Milly's love. Spring would come, and she would not be there ; sum- 
mer, and she would not be there ; and he would never have her again 
■with him by the fire-side iu tlie long evenings. The seasons all seemed 
irksome to his thoughts ; and how dreary the sunshiny days that would 
be sure to come ! She was gone from him ; and he could never make up 
for omissions in the past by filling future days with tenderness. 

Amos Baktox. 

212 



July 13. 



July 14. 
.lane Welsh Carlylc, 1801. 



213 



July 15. 



When our indignation is borne in submissive silence, we are apt to 

feel twinges of doubt afterward as to our own generosity, if not justice ; 

how much more when the object of our anger has gone into everlasting 

silence, and we have seen his face for the last time in the meekness of 

death. 

Adam Bede. 



July 16. 



His sister was quite used to the peculiar absence of ceremony with 
which he marked his sense of blood-relationship. Indeed she, herself, 
was accustomed to think that entire freedom from the necessity of 
behaving agreeably was included in the Almighty's intentions about 
families. 

MiDDLEMAUCU. 



214 



July 15. 



July 16. 



215 



July 17. 



Mrs. Stelling was not a, loving, tender-hearted woman ; she was a 

woman whose skirt sat well, who adjusted her waist and patted her curls 

with a pre-occupied air when she inquired after your welfare. These 

things, doubtless, represent a great social power, but it is not the power 

of love. 

TuK Mill ox thk Floss. 



July IS. 



Though Death were King 
And cruelty his right-hand minister, 
Pit3% insurgent in some human breasts, 
Makes spiritual empire, reigns supreme 
As persecuted faith in faithful hearts. 

TiiK Spanish Gypsy. 



i'k; 



July 17. 



July 18. 

Miss Louisa W. King, of Georgia, 1848. 



217 



July 19. 



When he had something painful to tell, it was usually his way to intro- 
duce it among a number of disjointed particulars, as if it were a medi- 
cine that would get a milder flavor by mixing. 

MiDDLEIMARCH. 



July 20. 

It was the first sign within the poor child of that new sense which is 
the gift of sorrow — that susceptibility to the bare offices of humanity 
which raises them into a bond of loving fellowship. 

Maggie could make no answer but a long, deep sob of that mysterious, 
wondrous happiness, that is, one with pain. 

The Mill on the Floss. 



218 



July 19. 



July 20. 



- ; '.) 



July 21. 

For the sanctity- of oaths 
Lies not in lightning that avenges them, 
Bnt in the injury wrought by brolven bonds 
And in the garnered good of human trust. 

TiiK SpAxrsn Gypsv. 

The real tie lies in the feeling and expectations we have raised in 
other minds. Else all pledges might be broken, when there was no out- 
ward penalty. There would be no such thing as faithfulness. 

The Mill on the Floss. 
July 22. 

Sfie is one of those respectable witnesses wlio would testif}' to the 
exact moment of an apparition, because any desirable moment will be 
as exact as another to her remembrance ; or who would be the most 
worthy to witness the actions of spirits on slates and tables, because the 
action of limbs would not probably arrest her attention. 

Theophh.vstus Such. 



220 



July 21, 



July 22. 



221 



July 23. 

I AM not descrying the life of the true artist. I am exalting it. I 
say it is out of the reach of any but choice organizations — natures 
framed to love perfection and to labor for it ; ready like all true lovers, 
to endure, to wait, to say, I am not yet worthy, but she — Art, my 
mistress — is worthy, and I will live to merit her. An honorable life? 
Yes. But the honor comi'S from the inward vocation and the hard- won 
achievement ; there is no honor in donning the life as a livery. 

Daniel Dehonua. 

July 24. 



Will's generous reliance on the intentions of tlie uni-\'erse with regard 
to himself, he held to be a mark of genius ; and certainly it is no mark 
to the contrary, genius consisting neither in self-conceit nor humility, 
but in a power to make, or do, not anything in general, but something in 
particular. 

MiDOLEMARCH. 



222 



July 23. 
Charlotte Cushman, 1816. 



July 24. 



223 



July 25. 



The true cross of the Redeemer was the sin and sorrow of this world, 

— that was what hxy heav}' on his heart, — and that is the cross we shall 

share with him, if we would have any part in that Divine Love which is 

one with his sorrow. 

Adam Bedk. 



July 26. 



Between him and her indeed there was that total missing of each 
other's mental track, which is too evidently possible even between per- 
sons who are continually thinking of each other. 

MiDDLEMARCH. 



224 



July 25. 



sALOA-lM^*^ CXC^ L^criu^ . / fL 



■I- 



July 26. 



July 27. 

" Hearing m3-self," he said, " hems in my life, 

And I will get me to some far-off land 

Where higher mountains under heaven stand, 

And touch the hlue at rising of the stars, 

Whose song they hear where no rough mingling mars 

The great, clear voices." 

The Legend of Jubal. 



July 28. 

As if all the great poetic criminals were not women ! I think the men 
are poor, cautious creatures. Daniel Deronda. 

Soothing, unspeakable charm of gentle womanhood ! which supersedes 
all acquisitions, all accomplishments. You would never have asked, at any 
period of Mrs. Amos Barton's life, if she sketched or played the piano. 
You would even perhaps have been rather scandalized if she had 
descended from the serene dignity' of heing. to the assiduous unrest of 
doing. Amos Barton. 

226 



July 27. 



July 28. 

i^'harlotte Conlay, 1768. 



fS^/S/Cu (h^^ChuJl, /S&¥, 



227 



July 29. 



It is a pretty surprise when one visits an elderly couple, to see a little 

figure enter in a white frock, with a blonde head as smooth as satin, 

round blue eyes, and a cheek like an apple-blossom. A toddling little 

girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar 

people understand each other. 

Jankt's Repentance. 



July 30. 



The thirtieth of July was come. Nature seems to make a pause just 

then -^ all the loveliest flowers are gone ; the sweet time of early growth 

and vague hopes is past ; and yet the time of liarvest and ingathering is 

not come, and we tremble at the possible storms that may ruiu the 

precious fruit in the moment of Its ripeness. 

Adam Bede. 



228 



July 29. 



July 30. 



22ry 



July 31. 

Mrs. Garth was not without her criticism on other women, being 
more accurate!}' instructed than most matrons in Middlemarch, and — 
wliere is the blameless woman ? — apt to be a little severe toward her own 
sex, which in her opinion was framed to he entirely subordinate. On 
the other liand, she was disproportionatel}' indulgent towards the failings 
of men, and was often heard to sa^' that these were natural. 

MiDDLKMARCH. 



230 



July 31. 
Mrs. Sarah Alden Ripley, 1793. 



231 



Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending. "Who can quit young 
lives after being long in company with them, and not desire to know 
what befellthem in after years? For the fragment of a life, however 
typical, is not the sample of an even web ; promises may not be kept, 
and an ai'dent outset may be followed by declension ; latent powers may 
find their long-waited opportunity ; a past error may urge a grand 
retrieval. 

MlDDI.EMAKCH. 



232 



But now the Red Deeps had the charm for Maggie, which any broken 
ground, any mimic rock and ravine have for the eyes that rest habituall}' 
on the level ; especiallj' in summer, when she could sit on a grassy hol- 
low nndi-r the shadow of a branching ash, stooping aslant from the steep 
above her, and listen to the hum of insects, like tiniest bells on the gar- 
ment of Silence, or see the sunlight piercing the distant boughs, as if to 
chase and drive home the truant heavenly blue of the wild hyacinths. 

The Mill on the Floss. 



233 



August 1. 



Solitude in any wide scene impressed her with an undefined feeling of 

immeasurable existence aloof from her, in the midst of which she was 

helplessl}^ incapable of asserting herself. The little astronomy taught 

her at school used sometimes to set her imagination at work in a way 

that made her tremble. 

Daniel Deronda. 



August 2. 



Paikt us an angel if you can, with a floating violet robe, and a face 

paled b}' the celestial light ; paint us yet oftener a Madonna, turning her 

mild face upward, and opening her arms to welcome the divine gloiy ; 

but do not impose on us any esthetic rules which shall banish from the 

region of Art those old women scraping carrots with their work-worn 

hands. 

Adam Bede. 



234 



August 1. 
Maria Mitchel, 1818. 



August 2. 



23o 



August 3. 



We may not make this world a paradise 

By walking it together hand in hand 

With eyes that meeting feed a double strength, 

We must be only joined by pains divine 

Of spirits blent in mutual memories. 

The Spanish Gypsy, 



August 4. 

O, I am sick at heart. The e3'e of day, 
The insistent summer sun, seemed pitiless, 
Shining in all the barren crevices 
Of weary life, leaving no shade, no dark, 
Where I ma}- dream that hidden waters lie. 

The Spanish Gypsy-. 



23fi 



August 3. 

Arabella Stuart, 1577. 



T tuJl(^ (3- ^^-^XU^-^Jv^JL I $"^0 



August 4. 

Letitia Elizabeth Landon, 1802. 



^^Ic^^ Jlu/.^i^ •Xs-y^e— 



2? 7 



August 5. 



The inhabitants of Raveloe were not severely regular in their church- 
going, and perhaps there was not a person in the parish who would not 
have held that to go to church every Sunday in the calendar would have 
shown a greedy desire to stand well with Heaven, and get an undue 
advantage over their neighbors. 

Silas Marker. 



August 6. 

Women who are never bitter and resentful are often the most querulous ; 

and if Solomon was as wise as he is reputed to be, I feel sure that when 

he compared a contentious woman to a continual dropping on a very 

rain}- day, he had not a vixen in his eye. Depend upon it, he meant a 

good creature, who had no joy but in the happiness of the loved ones 

whom she contributed to make uncomfortable, putting by all the tidbits 

for them, and spending nothing on herself. 

Adaim Bede. 



238 



August 5. 



August 6. 



239 



August 7. 



I SHOULD think his countenance is pleasant indeed ! And him a gentle- 
man born an 's got a mother like a picter. It's snmmat like to see such 
a man as that i' the desk of a Sunday ! As I say to Poyser, it 's like 
looking at a full crop of wheat, or a pasture with a fine dairy of cows in 
it ; it makes you think the world's comfortable like. 

AvAM Bedk. 



August S. 



She was in all respects a woman of scrupulous conscience, so eager 

for duties, that life seemed to offer them too scantil}' unless she rose at 

half-past four, though this threw a scarcity of work over the more 

advanced hours of the morning, which it was a constant problem to 

remove. 

Silas Marner. 



240 



August 7. 



August 8. 



241 



August 9. 

For high device is still the highest force ; 

And he who holds the secret of the wheel, 

May riiake the rivers do what work he would. 

"With thoughts impalpable we clutch men's souls, 

"Weaken the joints of armies, make them fl}' 

Like dust and leaves before the viewless winds. 

Tell me what's mirrored in the tiger's heart, 

I'll rule that too. 

Thk Spanish Gvpsv, 

August 10. 



Strange, that some of us, witli quick, alternate vision, see beyond our 
infatuations, and, even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide 
plane where our persistent self pauses and awaits us. 

MiDDLEMARCir. 



242 



August 9. 



August 10. 



243 



August 11. 

My work is mine, 

And, heresy or not, if my hand slacked, 

I should rob God — since he is fullest good. _ 

Steadivarius. 

But emotion, I fear, is irrational ; it insists on caring for individuals ; 
it absolutely refuses to adopt the quantitive view of human anguish, and 
to admit that thirteen happ}- lives are a set-off against twelve miserable 
lives, which leaves a clear balance on the side of satisfaction. This is 
the inherent imbecility of feeling. Janet's KEPENTA^-CE. 

August 12. 



Scotch tunes go on with the same tiling over and over again, and 

never come to a reasonable end. Anj'body 'ud think the Scotch tunes 

had always been asking a question of somebody as deaf as old Taft, and 

had never got an answer yet. 

Adam Bede. 



244 



August 11. 

Mrs. M. B Piatt, 1836. 



O^f^t^c* tr"' /i^**>e>f>^ . 6 4 



August 12, 



245 



August 13. 



Mirah's was the sort of voice that gives the impression of being meant 
like a bird's wooing for an audience near and beloved. 

Whose life was much checkered by resistance to her depreciation as a 
girl. 

MlODLEMARCH. 



August 14. 

He is n't one o' them gentle folks as go to cry at waterin'-places when 
their wives die ; he 's got summat else to do. He looks fine and sharp 
after the paiish — he does. He was at me to know what I did of a Sun- 
day, as I didn't come to church. But I told him I was upo' the travel 
three parts of the Sundays, an' then J 'm so used to bein' on my legs, I 
can't sit on end ; " an lors," says I, " a packman can do wi' small 'lowance 
o' church ; it tastes strong," says I ; "' there 's no call to lay it on thick." 

The Mill on thk Floss. 

246 



August 13. 
Lucy Stone Black well, 1818. 



August 14. 



247 



August 15. 



Mr. Irwine had taken off his l)oots and put on slippers before he 

came up stairs. Whoever remembers how many things he declined to 

do even for himself, rather than have the trouble of putting on or taking 

off his boots, will not think this last detail insignificant. 

Adam Bede. 



August 16. 



The middle-aged, who have lived through their strongest emotions, 
but are yet in the time when memory is still half passionate and not 
merely contemplative, should surel}' be a sort of natural priesthood, 
whom life has disciplined and consecrated to be the refuge and rescue of 
early stumblers and victims of self-despair. 

The Mill on the Floss. 



248 



August 15. 



August 16. 



249 



August 17. 



The dowry of in}' daughter is to be 
Chief woman of her people. 

This sweetest virgin reared 
As ganlen flowers to give the sordid world 
Glimpses of perfection. 



Tin: Spanish Gvpsy. 



August IS. 



The commonest man, who has his ounce of sense and feeling, is con- 
scious of the difference between a lovely, delicate woman and a coarse 
one. Even a dog feels a difference in their presence. The man may be 
no better able than the dog to explain the influence the more refined 

beauty has on him, but he feels it. 

Adam Bkde. 



260 



August 17. 

The Duchess of Kent, Mother cf Qiioen Victoria, 1786. 



August 18. 



231 



August 19. 



A FACE, not seraphic any longer ; thoroughl}- terrestrial and manly ; 

but still of a kind to raise belief in human dignity which can afford to 

acknowledge poor relations. And often the grand meanings of faces, as 

well as of written words may lie ehiefl}^ in the impressions of those who 

look on them. 

Danikl Dekonda. 



August 20. 



She sung with a sul)dued but searching pathos, which had that essen- 
tial of perfect singing, tlie making one oblivions of art and manner, and 

only possessing one witli tlie song. 

Daniel Deronda. 



252 



August 19. 



August 20. 

Christine Nilsson, 1843. 



258 



August 21. 



He is no longer in his spring-tide ; but having been always busy, he 

has been obliged to use his own impressions as if they were deliberate 

opinions, and to range himself on the corresponding side in ignorance of 

mind that he commits himself to. 

TiiEOPHRASTUS Sucn. 



August 22. 



We must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some 
of these cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only 
a very limited range of music, and will not vibrate in the least under a 
touch that fills others with tremulous rapture or quivering agon}'. 

Adam Bede. 



2.-)4 



August 21, 



August 22. 



255 



August 23. 



The instances are scattered but thinly over tlie galleries of Europe in 
which the fortune or selection even of the chief masters has given to art 
a face at once young, grand and beautiful, wliere, if there is any melan- 
choly, it is no feeble passivity, but enters into the foreshadowed capability 

of heroism. 

Daniel Dekunda. 



August 24. 



The growth of higher feeling within us is like the growth of faculty, 

bringing with it a sense of added strenyth ; we can no more wish to 

return to a narrower s^'mpathy, than a painter or a musician can wish to 

return to his cruder manner, or a philosopher to his less complete 

formula. 

AoAM Bede. 



256 



August 23. 



August 24. 
Countess of Huntington, 1707. 



257 



August 25. 

Mr. Ely never got into a warm discussion ; he suggested what might 
be thouglit, but rarely said wliat he thought himself; he never let either 
men or women see tliat lie was laughing at them, and he never gave an}'- 
one an opportunity- of laughing at him. In one thing onl3' he was inju- 
dicious. He parted his dark, wav}' hair down tlie middle ; and as his 
head was rather flat, that style of coiffure was not advantageous to him. 

Amos Bahton. 

August 26. 



The secret of our emotions never lies in the bare object, but in its 

subtle relations to our own past ; no wonder tbo secret escapes the 

nns3-mpathizing observer, who might as well put on his spectacles to 

discern odors. 

Adam Bepe. 



258 



August 25. 



August 26. 



25'J 



August 2/. 

No man believes that mai\y-textured knowledge and skill can come 
late and of a sudden ; yet many will not stick at believing that happiness 
can come at any da}^ and hour solely by a new disposition of events ; 
though there is nought less capable of a magical production than a mortal's 
happiness, which is mainly a complex of habitual relations and disposi- 
tions not to be wrought b^' news from foreign parts, or any whirling of 
fortune's wheel, for one on whose brow Time has written legibly. 

Felix Holt, 

August 28. 



For her reliance, in her smallest words and deeds, on a divine 

guidance, always issued in that finest woman's tact, which proceeds 

from acute and ready sympathy. 

Adam Bede. 



260 



August 27. 



August 28. 

Mrs. Lucy Webb Hayes 1831. 



2(11 



August 29. 

Besides, she objected Avitli a sort of physical repulsion, to being 
directly made love to. With all her imaginative delight in being adored, 
there was a certain fierceness of maidenhood in her. 

D.vNii:i. Dp:ronua. 

— ^i° — 

You daring modesty ! You slnink no more 
From gazing men than from the gazing tlovpers 
That, dreaming sunshine, open as you pass. 

Till': Spanish Gypsy. 

August 30. 

But in Dorothea's mind there was a current into which all thouglit and 
feeling were apt, sooner or later, to tiow — the reaching forward of the 
whole consciousness towards the fullest truth, the least partial good. 

MlI)I»LEAIAK':H. 

c^^ 

A FACE wliich liad the look of habitual, meditative abstraction from 
objects of mere personal vanity or desire, which is the peculiar stamp of 

culture. 

Fklix Holt. 
262 



August 29. 
Hypatia, about 385 A. D. 



August 30. 
Elizabeth Stuart Pbelps, 1844. 



2C3 



August 31, 



I SHOULD never have been happy in any profession that did not call 
forth the highest intellectual strain, and yet keep me in good warm con- 
tact with ni}' neighbors. There is nothing like the medical profession 
for that : one can haA'e the exclusive scientific life that touches the dis- 
tance, and befriend the old fogies in the parish, too. 

MlDDLEAIAUCn. 



2CA 



August 31. 
Dr. Maiy Jacolti. 



2C,i 



It must be sad to outlive aught we love, 

80 I shall grieve a little for these da^-s 

Of poor, unwed Fcdalma. Oh, thej' are sweet. 

And none will come just like them. Perhaps the wind 

Wails so in winter for the summer's dead. 

And all sad sounds are nature's funeral cries 

For what has been and is not. 

The Spanish Gypsy. 



266 



The sunshine was on the fields ; the early autumn sunshine which we 
should know was not summer's, even if there were no touches of 3'ellow 
on the lime and chestnut ; the Sunday sunshine, too, whicli has moi'e 
than autumnal calmness for the working-man ; the morning sunshine, 
which still leaves the dew-crystals on the fine gossamer webs in the 
shadow of the bushy hedge rows. 



September 1. 

Interpreting all things largel}', like a mind prepossessed with high 
belief. 

EOMOLA. 



Her person suited diamonds, and made them look as if the}' were 

worth some of the money given for them. 

Daxikl Deronda. 

September 2. 



With hand and arm that pla}' upon the tool 
As willing!}' as any singing bird 
Sets him to sing his morning roundelay, 
Because he likes to sing, and likes the song. 



StUADINARIUSo 



208 



September 1. 
Lady Blcssington, 1790; Lydia H. Slgournry, 1791. 



September 2. 

Miss Anne Whitney. 



2C>'J 



Septemeer 3.- 

HowivER, I am not denyin' that women are foolish ; God Ahnight}' 
made 'em to match the men. 

It 's the flesh and blood folks are made on as makes the difference. 

Some cheeses are made o' skimmed milk, and some o' new milk, and it's 

no matter what j'ou call 'em, 3-ou may know which is which by the look 

and smell. 

Adam Bkde. 

September 4. 

But the fuller nature desires to be an agent, to create and not merel}' 

to look on. Strong love hungers to bless, and not merel}' to behold 

blessing. 

Daniel Deuonda. 



The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no histor}'. 

The Mill ox the Floss. 

270 



September 3. 



September 4. 
Phcjebe Cary, 1824. 



271 



September 5. 



The bucolic character at Ha3'slope, you perceive, was not of the 

entire!}' genial, merry, broad-grinning sort apparently observed in most 

districts visited by artists. The mild radiance of a smile was a rare 

sight on a field-laborer's face, and there was seldom any gradation 

between bovine gravity and a laugh. 

Adam Bede. 



September 6. 



Overworked Mrs. Dagle}' — a thin, worn woman, from whose life 
pleasure had so entirely vanished that she had not even any Sunday 
clothes which could give her satisfaction in preparing for church — had 
already had a misunderstanding with her husband since he had come 
home, and was in low spirits, expecting the worst. 

MlDDLE^IAKCH, 



272 



September 5. 



September 6. 



September 7. 



I HAVE breathed my soul ; 
I lie here now the remnant of that whole, 
The embers of a life, a lonely pain ; 
As far off rivers to my thirst were vain, 
So of my mighty years nought comes to me again. 

The Legend of Jhbal. 



September 8. 



For Adam, though j'ou see him quite master of himself, working hard 
and delighting in his work after his inborn, inalienable nature, had not 
outlived his sorrow — had not felt it slip from him as a temporary bur- 
den, and leave him the same man again. Do any of us? God forbid. 

Adam Bede. 



274 



September 7. 
Queen Elizabeth, of England, 1533. 



September S. 



September 9. 



I'll tell 3-011 what's the greatest power under heaven, and that is 
public opinion — the ruling belief in society about what is right and 
what is wrong, what is honorable and what is shameful. 

Fklix Holt. 



September 10. 

There is no compensation for the woman that feels that the chief rela- 
tion of her life has been no more than a mistake. She has lost her 
crown. The deepest secret of human blessedness has half whispered 
itself to her, and tlien forever passed her by. Romola. 

^iSo 

On solitary souls, the universe 

Looks down inhospitable ; the human heart 

Finds nowhere shelter but in human kind. 

Tni<: Spanish Gypsy. 
27(; 



September 9. 



September 10. 



September 1 1, 



No life would have been possible to Dorothea which was not lilled with 
emotion, and she had now a life filled also with beneficent activity which 
she had not the doubtful pains of discovering and marking out for 
herself. 

MiDDLEMARCH. 



September 12. 



The Miss Linnets were in that temperate zone of old raaidism, when 

a woman will not say but that if a man of suitable yeais an(] character 

were to offer himself, she miglit be induced to tread the remainder of 

life's vale in company with him. 

Janet's Hepextaxck. 



278 



September 11. 
Sarah Franklin Bacbe, 1714. 



September 12. 



279 



September 13. 

He was alwa3's prone to believe that be could make moncA- liy the pur- 
chase of a horse which turned out badly — though this, ]\Iary observed, 
was of course the fault of the horse, not't)f Fred's judgment. 

MiDDLKMARCH. 

c^^ 

I HAVE a knack of hoping, which is as good as an estate in reversion, 

if one can keep from the temptation of turning it into certainty, which 

may spoil all. 

Danikl Drkoxda. 

September 14. 

Mr. Ham dealt a1)ly in books in ihe same way that he would have 
dealt in tins of meat and other commodities — without knowledge or 
responsibilit}' as to the proportion of rottenness or nourishment they 
might contain. Damel T)ki;oxi>a. 

Oh, sir, the loftiest hopes on earth 

Draw lots with meaner hopes ; heroic breasts 

Breathing bad air, run risk of pestilence. 

MlDDLK.ArAHCH. 

280 



September 13. 



7k<w.«. Uno^ Zi^^yjtu^ 1^^"^- 



September 14. 



2^;i 



September 15. 

I SING for love of song and that renown 

Which is the spreading act, the world-wide share 

Of good that I was born with. 

AHMGART. 

o«»= 

However slight the terrestial intercourse between Dante and Beatrice, 
or Petrarch and Laura, time changes the proportion of things, and in 
later daj's it is preferable to have fewer sonnets and more conversation. 

MlDDLKMAUCH. 

September 16. 



But that simplicity of hers, holding up an ideal for others in her 
believing conception of them, was one of the great powers of her woman- 
hood. He felt that his brief words would only profit by their brevity 
when Dorothea had to interpret them. He felt that in her mind he had 
found his highest estimate. 

MiDDLEMAKCn. 



282 



September 15. 
Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney, 1824. 



September 16. 



2SP> 



September 17.' 



But he also made up his muid that his life was not to be pauperized 

because he had had to renounce one sort of joy ; rather he had begun 

life again with a new counting-up of the treasures that remained to him, 

and he had even felt a release of power such as may come from ceasing 

to be afraid of your own neck. 

Daniel Dehonoa. 



September IS. 
Hev a dog, Miss — I can't give you Mumps, 'cause he'd break his 
lieart to go away from me, but there 's a pup — if you didn't mind about 
it not bein' thoroughbred. She means more scMise wi' her bark nor half 
the chaps can put into their talk from breakfast to sundown. There 's 
one chap carries pots — a poor, low trade as any on the road — he says, 
''Why Toby 's naught but a mongrel — there 's naught to look at in her." 
But I says to him, " Wh}' what are you yoursen but a mongrel? There 
wasn't much pickin' o' ?/o?tr feythcr and mother, to look at you." Not but 
what I like a bit o' breed myself, but I can't abide to see one cur grinnin' 
at another. ^^^ The Mill ox the Floss. 



September 17. 



September 18. 



285 



September 19. 



She 's sure to have a word to say as 'il help us to set things ou their 
right end. 

She saves a little pepper to sprinkle over her talk — that's the reason 

why she never puts too much into her pies. 

Silas Marner. 



September 20. 



With some even admirable persons one is never quite sure of any 

particular being included under a general head, A proWncial physician, 

it is said, once ordering a lady patient not to eat salad, was asked 

pleadingly by the affectionate husband whether she might eat lettuce, or 

cresses, or radishes. 

Theopiirastus Stjch. 



286 



September 19. 
Abagail Dodge (Gail Hamilton), 1830. 



SEPTEMBeR 20. 



287 



SEx'^tember 21, 



I THINK there are stores laid up in our Imman nature, that our under- 
standings can make no complete inventory of. Certain strains of music 
pfFect me strangely — I can never hear them without changing my whole 
attitude of mind for a time, and if the effect would last, I might be 

capable of heroisms. 

Thf. Mill ox iuk Floss. 



September 22. 



O, MY dear, when you have a clergyman in your family, you must 
accommodate your tastes ; I did that very early. When I married 
Humphrey, I made up ray mind to like sermons, and I set out by liking 
the end very much. That soon spread to the middle and to the begin- 
ning, because I couldn't have the end without them. 

MiDDLEMARCH. 



288 



September 21. 



September 22. 



289 



September 23. 

Oh, pleasure has cramped dwelling in our souls, 

And V hen full Being comes must cull on ^.ain 

To lend it liberal space. Armgart. 

She felt the intensity of life which seems to tx-anscend both grief and 
joy- in which the mind seems to itself akin to elder forces that wrought 
out existence before the birth of pleasure and pain. 

ROMOLA. 

September 24. 



I 'vE known husbands who 've laid plans for tormenting their wives 
when the}- 're underground — tying up their money and hindering them 
from marrying again. Not that I should ever wish to marry again ; I 
think one husband in one's life is enough in all conscience — but it's 
aggravating to be tied up in that way 

Janet's Repentanck. 



September 23. 



September 24. 



291 



September 25. 



She was not coldh" clever, but adorably simple and full of feeling. 
She was an angel beguiled. It would be a unique delight to wait and 
watch for the melodious fragments ia which her heart and soul came 
forth so directly and ingenuously. The ^Eolian harp again came to his 
mind. 

MiDDLEMARCH. 



September 26. 

By opinions you mean men's thoughts about great subjects, and by 
taste 3'ou mean their thoughts about small ones ; dress, behavior, 
amusements, ornaments. Felix Holt. 

o|^ 

You thought to hide things from her — sat upon your secret and looked 
innocent, and all the while she knew b}' the corner of 3'onr c^'e that it 
was exactly fi\e pounds ten you were sitting on ! As well turn Ihe ke}' 
to keep out the damp. Daniel Deuoxda. 

202 



September 25. 

Mrs. Felicia Ilcmans, 1794. 



September 26. 



298 



Septembek 27. 

That was a time of color, when the sunlight fell on glancing steel and 

floating banners, a time of adventure and fierce struggle — nay, of living 

religious art and religious enthusiasm ; for were not cathedrals built in 

those days, and did not great emperors leave their western palaces to die 

beneath the infidel's strongholds in the sacred East? Therefore it is that 

these Rhine castles thrill me with a sense of poetry ; they belong to the 

grand histoi ic life of humanity, and raise up for me the vision of an 

epoch. 

The Mill on the Floss. 

September 28. 

Man thinks 
Brutes have no wisdom, since they know not his ; 
Can he divine their world ? 

O, THEY have long tradition and swift speech, 
Can tell with touches and sharp darting cries 
Whole histories of timid races taught 
To breathe in terror by red-handed man. 

The Spanish Gypsy. 

294 



September 27. 



September 28. 

Mrs. Caroline Earle White, 1833. 



29.- 



September 29. 

For what is love itself for the one we love best? — an infolding of 
immeasurable cares, which yet are better than any joys outside our love. 

Daniel Dkhonda. 

The early months of marriage often are times of critical tumult — 
whether that of a shrimp-pool or of deeper waters — which afterwards 
subsides into cheerful peace. 

MiDDLEMAKCU. 

September 30. 

Yet these commonplace people — many of them — bear a conscience, 
and have felt the sublime prompting to do the painful right ; they have their 
unspoken sorrows, and their sacred joys ; their hearts have perhaps gone 
out towards their first-born, and they have mourned over the irreclaim- 
able dead. Nay, is there not a pathos in their very insignificance — in 
our comparison of their dim and narrow existence with the gloriouc pos- 
sibilities of that human nature which they share. 

Amos Bahton. 

296 



September 29. 



Septembei^ 30. 



297 



In the checkered area of human experience the seasons are all mingled 
as in the golden age ; fruit and blossom hang together ; in the same 
moment the sickle is reaping and the seed is sprinkled ; one tends the 
green cluster and another treads the wine-press. Nay, in each of our 
lives harvest and spring-time are continually one, until Death himself 
gathers us and sows us anew in his invisible fields. 

Daniel Deronda. 



208 



How is it that the poets have said so many fine things about our first 

love, so fev,- about our hilcr love? Are their first poems tlie best? or are 

not those the best which come from their fuller thought, their larger 

experience, their deeper-rooted affections? The bo3''s flute-like voice 

has its own spring charm ; but the man should yield a richer, deeper 

music. 

ADA^r Bede. 



290 



October 1 . 



It's like the night and the morning, and the sleeping and the waking, 

and the rain and the harvest — one goes and the other comes, and we 

know nothing how nor where. We may strive and scrat and fend, but 

it's little we can do arter all — the big tilings come and go wi' no 

striving o* our'n — they do — that they do. 

Silas Marxer. 



October 2. 

'• Happen 3'ou 'd like Mumps for company, Miss. He 's rare company 
— Mumps is ; he knows iverything, an' makes no bother about it. If I 
tell him, he '11 lie before you an' watch you — as still — just as lie watches 
my pack. You'd better let me leave him a bit ; he '11 get fond on you. 
Lovs, it's a tine thing to hev a dumb brute fond on you ; it'll stick to 
you, an' make no jaw." 

" Yes, do leave him please," said Maggie — "I think I should like to 

have Mumps for a friend." 

The Mill on the Floss. 

300 



October 1. 



October 2. 



301 



October 3. 



It mayn't be good luck to be a woman, but one begins with it from a 

baby : one gets used to it. And I shouldn't like to be a man — to cough 

so loud, and stand straddling about on a wet day, and be so wasteful 

with meat and drink. They're a coarse lot, I think. 

Felix Holt. 



October 4. 



Miss Pratt was an old maid, but that is a no more definite descrip- 
tion than if I had said she was in the autumn of life. Was it autumn 
when the orchards are fragrant with apples, or autumn when the last 3'el- 

low leaves are fluttering in the chill breeze? 

Janet's Repentance. 



302 



October 3. 



October 4. 



303 



October 5. 

Looking at the mother, you might hope that the daughter would 
become like her, which is a prospective advantage equal to a dowry. 

MiDDLEMARCH. 



She was intensely of the feminine type, A'^erging neither toward the 

saint nor the angel. 

Felix Holt. 

October 6. 

Armgart. — I was blind 

With too much happiness ; true vision comes 
Only, it seems, with sorrow. Were there one 
This inbment near me, suffering what I feel, 
And needing me for comfort in her pang — 
Then it were worth the while to live : not else. 

Walpdrger. — One — near 3'ou — why, they throng ! You hardly stir 
But 3'our act touches them. We touch afar. 

AUMGAKT. 
30 1 



October 5. 



October 6. 



SOh 



October 7. 



"We can only have the highest happiness, such as goes along with being 
a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of 
the world as well as ourselves ; and this sort of happiness often brings so 
much pain with it that we can onlj' tell it from pain by its being what we 
would choose before everything else, because our soul sees it is good. 

ROMOLA. 



October 8. 



O THE anguish of the thouglit, that we can never atone to our dead 

for the stinted affection we gave them, for the light answers we returned 

to their plaints or their pleadings, for the little reverence we showed to 

that sacred human soul that lived so close to us, and was the divinest 

thing God had given to us to kuov,'. 

Amos Barton. 



30G 



October 7. 



October S. 



.•?07 



October 9. 



'T IS rare delight ; I would not change my skill 
To be the Emperor Avith bungling hands, 
And lose my work, which comes as natural 
As self at waking. 

Sti.'auivakhs. 



October lO. 

" Well," said Craig, " I like a cleverish woman — a w^oman o' sperrit 
— a managing woman." 

" You are out there, Craig," said Bartle. " You don't value your peas 
for their roots, or 3'our carrots for their flowers. Now, that 's the way 
A'ou should choose women : their cleverness '11 never come to much ; but 
they make excellent simpletons, ripe and strong-flavored," 

Adam Bede. 

30S 



October 9. 
Harriet Hosmer, 1830. 



October 10. 



309 



October 11. 

We are apt to bo kinder to the brutes that love iis than to the women 
that love us. Is it because the l)rutes are dumb? 

AiJAAi Bi:i>K,. 



In many of our neighbors' lives there is much not only of error and 
lapse, but of a certain ex(|nisite goodness which can never be spoken — 
only divined by each of us, according to the inward instruction of our 
own i)rivac3". 

October 12. 

We must be patient with the inevitable mako-shift of our human 

thinking, whether in its sum total or in the separate minds that have 

made the sum. Columbus had some impressions about himself which we 

call superstitions, and used some arguments which we disapprove ; but he 

had also some true physical conceptions, and he had the passionate 

patience of genius to make them tell on mankind. 

Daniel Deuonda. 



310 



October 11. 



October 12. 



;!ii 



October 13. 
The fruit trees wore their studded coronal, 
Earth and her children were at festival, 
Glowing as with one heart and one consent, 
Thought, love, trees, rocks, in swift, warm radiance blent. 

Thk Le(;k.\d of Juijal. 

There is a fine presence ahoiit Mr. Harold. I remember 30U used to 
say there was some people you would always know were in the room, 
though they stood round a corner, and others you might never see till 
3'ou were against them. Felix Holt. 

October 14. 



To rob words of half their meaning, while they retain their dignity as 

qualifications, is like allowing to men who have lost half their faculties, 

the same high and perilous command which they won in tlieir time of 

vigor. 

Thkopukastus SL'CH. 



312 



October 13. 



October 14. 



313 



October 15. 

One of those benignant, lovely souls who, without astonishing the 
public and posterit}', made a happy difference in the lives close around 
them, and in this way lift the average of earthly joy. 

Theophrastus Such. 

Ever in his soul 
That larger justice which makes gratitude 
Triumped above resentment. 'T is the mark 
Of regal natures, with the wider life, 

And fuller capability of joy. Daniel Deronda. 

October 16. 



Freshening life's dusty road with babbling rills 
Of wit and song, living 'mid harnessed men 
With limbs ungalled by armor, ready so 
To soothe them weary and to cheer them sad. 

The Spaxish Gypsy. 



il4 



October 15. 
Mrs. Inclibakl, 1753. 



October 16. 
Helen Hunt Jackson. 



October 1' 



When a tender affection has been storing itself in us through man}- of 
our years, the idea that we could accept any exchange for it seems to be 
a cheapening of our lives. And we can set a watch over our affections 
and our constancy as we can over other treasures. 

MiDDLEMARCH. 



October IS. 

You can never imagine what it is to have a man's force of genius in 

3'ou, and yet to suffer the slavery of being a girl. To have a pattern 

cut out, this is what you must be ; this is what you are wanted for. A 

woman's heart must be of such a size, and no larger, else it nuist be 

pressed small like Chinese feet. Her happiness is to be made as cakes 

are, by a fixed receipt. 

D.A^'iEL Deroxda. 



UG 



October l7 



October 18. 



317 



October 19. 

It would be a poor result of all our anguish aud wrestling, if we won 
nothing but our old selves 'at the end of it — if we could return to the 
samebUnd loves, tlie same self-confident blame, the same light thoughts 
of human suffering, the same frivolous gossip over blighted lives, the 
same feeble sense of that unknown toward which we have sent forth irre- 
pressible cries in our loneliness. 

Adam Bede. 



October 20. 



Even mucli stronger mortals than Fred Vine}- hold half their rectitude 
in the mind of the being they love best. " The theatre of all m}' actions 
is fallen," said an antique personage when his chief friend was dead ; 
and they are fortunate who get a theatre where the audience demands 
their best. 

MU5DLEMARCTI. 



318 



0.:.T>)-JER 19. 



October 20. 



319 



October 21. 



Yes, yes; it's rather too bad when these great singers marry them- 
selves into silence before they have a crack in tlieir voices. And the 
husband is a public robber. I lemember Leroux saving a man might as 
well take down a peal of church bells and carry them off to the steppes. 

Danikl Deuonda. 



October 22. 

I.S it no offence 
To wish the eagle may find repose 
As feebler wings do, in a quiet nest? 
Or, has the taste of fame already turned 
The woman to a ]Muse? Armgart. 

It is very pleasant to see some people turn round ; pleasant as a sud- 
den rush of warm air in winter, or the flash of firelight in the chill dusk. 

Adaji Bede. 
320 



October 21. 

Jenny liind Goldschinidt, 1«24. 



October 22. 

Annie Louise Cary (Mr.s. Raymond). 



321 



October 23. 



In transactions between fellow-men it is well to consider a little what 

is fair and kind toward the person immediately concerned, before we spit 

and roast him on behalf of the next century but one. On the whole, and 

in the vast majorit}' of instances, the action b}' which we can do the 

best for future ages is of the -sort which has a certain beneficence and 

grace for contemporaries. 

Theopiirastus Such. 



October 24. 



But his endurance was mingled with a self-discontent which, if we 
know how to be candid, we shall confess to make more than half our 
bitterness under grievances, wife or husband included. It alvva3S remains 
true that if we had been greater circumstance would have been less 
strong against us. 

MiODLEMAKCH. 



October 23. 



October 24. 



323 



October 25. 

The sadder illusion lay with Harold Transom, who was trusting in his 
own skill to shai)e the success of his own morrows, ignorant of what 
many yesterda3s had determined for him beforehand. 

Felix Holt. 

1st Gent. — Our deeds are fetters that we forge ourselves. 
2d Gent. — Ay, truly : but I think it is the world 
That brings the iron. 

MiDDLEMARCH. 

October 26. 



For Mrs. Renfrew, the Colonel's widow, was not only unexception- 
able in point of breeding, but also interesting on the ground of her com- 
l)laint, which puzzled the doctors, anC seemed clearly a case wherein the 
the fulness of professional knowledge might need the supplement of 
quackery. 

MiDDLEMARCH. 



324 



OCTOBEK 25. 



October 26. 



325 



October 27. 

Ingenious philosophers tell 3'ou that the great work of the steam- 
engine is to create leisure for mankind. Do not believe them ; it only 
creates a vacuum for eager thought to rush in. Even idleness is eager 
now — eager for amusement, prone to excursion trains, art museums, 
periodical literature, and exciting novels ; prone even to scientific 
theorizing and cursory peeps through microscopes. 

Adam Bedk. 



October 2S. 



1 HAVE spoken to as rough, ignorant people as can be found in the 

villages about Snowfield — men that look very hard and wild ; but they 

never said an uncivil word to me, and often thanked me kindly as they 

made way for me to pass through the midst of them. 

Adam Bede. 



326 



October 27. 



October 28. 

Anna Dickinson, 1842. 



327 



October 29. 



Ah yes ! all preciousness 
To mortal hearts is guarded by a fear ; 
All love fears loss, and most that loss supreme, 
Its own perfection, — seeing, feeling change 
From high to lower, dearer to less dear. 



TiiK Spanish Gypsy 



October 30. 

I AM not glad with that mean vanit}' 
Which knows no good beyond its appetite 
Full feasting npon praise ! I am only glad. 
Being praised for what I know is worth the praise ; 
Glad of the proof that I myself have part 
In what I worship ! 

I accept the peril. 
I choose to walk high with sublimer dread 
Rather than crawl in safety. And besides, 
I am an at tist as 3'ou are a noble ; 
I ought to bear the burthen of my rank. AuMCiAirr. 

328 



October 29. 



October 30. 
Adelaide Anne Proctor, 182.5; Angelica Kaufman, 1741. 



Oxw-U^ i>(A-rOuUJu, (lidijjjucn>.<L Oa^<4^ S'f. 



^29 



October 31. 

Our caresses, our tender words, our still rapture under the influence of 
autumn sunsets, or pillared vistas, or calm, majestic statues, or Bee- 
thoven symphonies, all bring with them the consciousness that they are 
mere waves and ripples in an unfathomable ocean of love and beauty ; 
our emotion in its keenest moment passes from expression into silence ; 
our love at its highest flood rushes beyond its object and loses itself in 

the sense of divine mystery. 

Adam Bede. 



330 



October 31. 



381 



The crane, with outspread wing, that heads the file, 
Pauses not, feels no backward impulses : 
Behind it summer was, and is no more ; 
Before it lies the summer it will reach 
Or fall in the mid-ocean. And you no less 
Must feel the force sublime of growing life. 
New thoughts are urgent as the growth of wings ; 
The widening vision is imperious. 



The Spanish Gypsy. 



332 



And then the tiled roof of cottage and homestead, of the long cow- 
shed where generations of the milky motliers ha^e stood patiently, of the 
broad-shouldered barns where the old-fasliioned flail once made resonant 
music, while the watch-dog barked at the timidly venturesome fowls 
making pecking raids on the outflying grain — the roofs that have looked 
out from among the elms and walnut trees, or beside the yearly group 
of hay and corn stacks, or below the square stone steeple, gathering their 
gray or ochre-tinted lichens, and their olive-green mosses under all min- 
istries — let us praise the sober harmonies the}^ give to our landscape. 

TnKopHiiA.sTUs Such. 



November l, 



For Mrs. Hackit regulated her costume by the calendar, and brought 
out her furs on the first of November, whatever might be the tempera- 
ture. She was not a woman weakly to accommodate herself to shilly- 
shally proceedings. If the season didn't know what it ought to do, Mrs. 

Hackit did. 

Amos Bakton. 



November 2. 

Life is a various mother ; now she dons 

Her plumes and briUiants, climbs the marble staij-s 

With head aloft, nor ever turns her e^'es 

On lackeys who attend her ; now she dwells 

Grim-clad, up darksome alleys, breathes hot gin, 

And screams in pauper riot. 

Daniel Deronda. 

— i^^ — 

She 's cut out o' different stuff from most women ; I saw that long ago. 
She 's never eas}' but when she 's helping somebody. 

Adam Bede. 



November 1, 



November 2. 
Maria Antoinette, 1755; Harriet McEv.en Kimball. 



3ol 



November 3. 



It was as necessary to her mind to have an opinion on all topics, not 

exclusively masculine, that had come under her notice, as for her to have 

a precisely marked place for ever}^ article of her personal property ; and 

her opinions were always principles to be unwaveriugl}- acted on. They 

were firm, not because of their basis, but because she held them with a 

tenacity inseparable from her mental action. 

Silas Marnek. 



November 4. 

The l:)est augur}^ of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks 
it the finest in the world. 

But I fancy it is so with most work when a man goes into it with a 
will. Brewitt, the blacksmith, said to me, the other day, that his 
'prentice liad no mind to his trade ; " and j-et, sir," said Brewitt, " what 
would a young fellow have if he does'nt hke the blacksmithing?" 

Daniel Dehonda. 
336 



November o. 



November 4. 



November 5. 



Tito and Romola never jarred, never remonstrated with each other. 
The\' were too hopelessly alienated in their inner life ever to have that 
contest which is an effort towards agreement. ... In the first ardor 
of her self-conquest, Romola had made many timid efforts towards the 
return of a franlc relation between them. But to her such a relation 
could onh' come by open speech about their differences. 

KOMOLA. 



November 6. 



By desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don't quite know 
what it is, and cannot do what we would, we are a part of the divine 
power against evil — widening the skirts of light, and making the 

MiDDLEMARCH. 



338 



November 5. 



November 6. 



3:5<) 



November 7. 



I NEVER said a woman should make a black patch of herself against 
the background. It 's a shame for a woman with 3'oar hair and shoulders 
to run into such nonsense — leave it to women who are not worth paint- 
ing. What ! the most holy Virgin herself has always been dressed well ; 
that 's the doctrine of the Church. 

KOMOLA. 



November 8. 



For an enthusiastic spirit to meet continually the fixed indifference of 
men familiar with the object of his enthusiasm is the acceptance of a slow 
mart3'rdom, beside which the fate of a missionary tomahawked without 
any considerate rejection of his doctrines seems hardly worth}' of com- 
passion. 

Daxiei, Dkuoxda. 



;uo 



November 7. 



November S. 



:ui 



November 9. 



We in our wedded life shall know no loss, 

We shall new-date our ^-ears. What went before 

Will be the time of promise, shadows, dreams ; 

But this, full revelation of great love. 

For rivers blent take in a broader heaven. 

And we shall blend our souls. 

The Spanish Gytsy. 



November 10. 



The struggle of mind attending a conscious error had awakened some- 
thing like a new soul, which had better, but also worse, possibilities than 
her former poise of crude self-confidence. Among the forces she had 
begun to dread was something within her which troubled satisfaction. 

Daniel Dehoxda. 



,'U2 



November 9. 



November 10. 



343 



November 11. 



What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that 
they are joined for life — to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on 
each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one 
with each other in silent, unspeakable memories at the moment of the 
last parting? 

Adam Bede. 



November 12. 
The prevarications and white lies which a mind that keeps itself ambi- 
tiously pure is as uneasy under as a great artist under the false touches 
that no eye detects but his own, are worn as lightl}' as mere trimmiiio;s 
when once the actious have become a lie. Silas Marxkk. 

When a woman feels purely and nobly, that order of hers which 

breaks through formulas too vigorously urged on her by daily practical 

needs, makes one of her most precious influences ; she is the added 

impulse that shatters the stiffening crust of cautious experience. 

Fioux Holt. 
■AU 



November 11. 
Mrs. Abagail Adams, 1744 (O. S). 



November 12. 
Mrs. Amelia Opie, 1767; Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1816. 



345 



November 13. 



In the wonderful mixtures of our nature, there is a feeling distinct 
from that exclusive passionate love of which some men and women (by 
no means all) are capable, whicli yet is not the same with friendship, nor 
with a merely benevolent regard, whether admiring or compassionate. 

Daniel Dekonda. 



November 14. 



So Eppie was reared without punishment, the burden of her misdeeds 
being borne vicariously by Father Silas. The stone hut was made a soft 
nest for her, lined with downy patience ; and also in the world that lay 
beyond the stone hut for her, she knew nothing of frowns and denials. 

Silas Marner. 



346 



November 13. 
Lady Caroline Lanil), 178.5. 



November 14. 



November 15. 



A WIDOW at fift3'-five whose satisfaction liad been largol}' drawn from 
what she thinks of her own person, and what she believes others think of 
it, requires a great fund of imagination to keep her spirits buo3'ant. 

llOJIOLA. 



November 16. 

Much of our lives is spent in marring our own inlluence and turning 
other's belief in us into a wide!}- concluding unbelief, which the}' call 
knowledge of the world, while it is reall}' disappointment in ou or me. 

Daniki. ])ki;<^xda. 

Let the wise be warned against too great readiness at explanation ; it 
multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners 
sure to go wrong. 

MiDDLEMARCn. 

US 



November 15, 



NovEMBER 16. 



349 



November 17. 



I HATE that talk o' people, as if there was a way o' making amends 

for everything. They'd more need be brought to see as the wrong the}'^ 

do can never be altered. When a man 's spoiled his fellow-ereature's 

life, he 's no right to comfort himself with thinking good ma}' come out 

of it. 

Adam Bede. 



November IS. 

No man has too much talent to be a musician. Most men have too 
little. A ci'eative artist is no more a mere musician than a great states- 
man is a mere politician. We help to rule the nations and make the age 
as much as any other public men. A man who speaks effectively through 
music is compelled to something more difficult than parliamentary 

eloquence. 

Daniel Deronda. 



850 



November 17. 



November 18. 



351 



November 19. 



FcR the moment, Will's admiration was accompanied with a chill 
sense of remoteness. A man is seldom ashamed of feeling that he can- 
not love a woman so well when he sees a certain greatness in her, 
— Nature having intended greatness for men. But Nature has some- 
times made sad oversights in carrying out her intentions. 

MiDDLE.MAKClI. 



Ndvember 20. 

Op natures you call ro3'al, who can live 

In mere mock knowledge of their fellows' woe, 

Thinking their smiles may heal it. 



ARMG.iRT. 



And it is of the nature of vanil}- and arrogance, if unchecked, to 
become cruel and self-justifying. There are fierce beasts within. 



Theophrastus Such. 
362 



November 19. 



November 20. 
Catherine de Medicis, 1519. 



853 



November 21. 



Say, why, I say as some folks' tongues are like the clocks as run on 

strikiu', not to tell you the time o' the day, but because there 's summat 

wrong i' their own inside. 

Adam Bede. 



November 22. 

How will yon know the pitch of that great bell 

Too large for you to stir ? Let but a flute 

Phiy 'neath the fine-mixed metal; listen close 

Till the right note flows forth i\ silvery rill, 

Then shall the huge bell tremble — then the mass 

With myriad waves concurrent shall respond 

In low, soft unison. Middlemarch. 



For what is fame 
But the benignant strength of One, transformed ^ 
To joy of Many.? Tributes, plaudits come 
As necessary breathing of sucli joy. 

The Spanish Gypsy. 

354 



November 21. 



November 22. 

George Eliot, 1820. 



356 



November 23- 



What he felt was a profound sensibility to a cry from the depths of 
another soul ; and accompanying that, the summons to be receptive 
instead of supercilious!}' prejudging. Receptiveness is a rare and mas- 
sive power, like fortitude ; and this state of mind gave Deronda's face 
its utmost expression of calm, benignant force. 

Daniel Dekonda. 



November 24. 



Life never seems so clear and easy as when the heart is beating faster 
at the sight of some generous, self-risking deed. We feel no doubt, 
then, what is the highest prize the soul can win. 

ROMOLA. 



356 



November 23. 



November 24. 
Grace Darling, 1815. 



357 



November 25. 



We perhaps never detect how much of our social demeanor is made 
up of artificial airs, until we see a person who is at once beautiful and 
simple ; without the beauty, we are apt to call simplicit}^ awkwardness. 

The Mill on the Floss. 



November 26. 

It is hard to sa}' how much we could forgive ourselves if we were 
secure from judgment by another whose opinion is the breathing-medium 
of all our joy ; who brings to us with close pressure and immediate 
sequence that judgment of the Invisible and Universal which self-flattery 
and the world's tolerance would easily melt and disperse. 

Daniel Deronda. 



358 



November 25. 



November 26. 



359 



November 27. 

I AM an artist by my birth, 
By the same warrant that I am a woman ; 
Nay, in the added rarer gift I see 
Supreme vocation : If a conflict comes, 
Perish — no, not the woman, but the joys 
Which men make narrow by their narrowness. 

Armgaht. 



November 28. 



Sorrow and joy have each their peculiar narrowness ; and a religious 
enthusiasm like Savonarola's, which ultimately blesses mankind by 
giving the soul a strong propulsion towards sympathy with pain, indig- 
nation against wrong, and the subjugation of sensual desire, must always 
incur the reproacli of a great negation. 

llOMOLA. 



360 



NOVEMHER 27. 
Frances Ann Kemble, 1809. 



November 28. 



361 



November 29. 

It is really surprising that young ladies should not be thought com- 
petent to the sarae curriculum as young gentlemen — I observe tliat their 

powers of sarcasm are quite equal. 

Janet's Kepentance. 

So that if she came into the room on a rain}' day when everyone else 

was flaccid, and the use of things in general was not apparent to them, 

there seemed to be a sudden , sufficient reason for keeping up the forms 

of life. 

Daniel Deronda. 

November 30. 



The pathos of his country's lot pierced the youthful soul of Massini, 

because, like Dante's, his blood was fraught with the kinship of Italian 

greatness, his imagination filled with a majestic past that wrought itself 

into a majestic future. 

Theophrastus Such. 



362 



November 29. 

Louisa May Alcott, 1832. 



} 



November 3d. 



o(J3 



For if it be true that Nature at certain moments seems charged with a 
presentiment of one individual lot, must it not also be true that she 
se^s unmindful, unconscious of another? For there is no hour that 
has not its births of gladness and despair, no morning brightness that 
does not bring new sickness to desolation, as well as new forces to 
genius and love. There are so many of us, and our lots arc so different, 
what wonder that Nature's mood is often in harsh contrast with the great 
crisis of our lives? We are children of a large family and must learn, 
as such children do, not to expect that our hurts will be made much of — 
to be content with little nurture and caressing, and help each other the 

more. 

Adam Bede. 



864 



But old Christmas smiled as he laid this cruel-seeming spell on the 
out-door world, for he meant to light up home with new brightness, to 
deepen all the richness of in-door color, and give a keener edge of delight 
to the warm fragrance of food ; he meant to prepare a sweet imprisonment 
that would strengthen the primitive fellowship of kindred. His kindness 
fell but hardly on the homeless — fell but hardly on the homes where the 
hearth was not very warm, and where the food had little fragrance. But 
the fine old season meant well ; and if he has not learnt the secret how 
to bless men impartially, it is because his father, Time, with ever-unre- 
lenting purpose, still hides that secret in his own might}', slow-beating 

heart. 

The Mill on the Floss. 



365 



December 1. 



You will make rank seem natural, as kind 
As eagles' plumage, or the lion's might — 
A crown upon your brow would seem God-made. 



The Spanish Gypsy. 



December 2. 

I SHARE with you this sense of oppressive narrowness, but it is neces- 
sar}' that we should feel it, if we care to understand how it has acted on 
3'oung natures in many generations, that in the onward tendency of 
human things have risen above the mental level of the generation before 
them, to which they have nevertheless been tied by the strongest fibres 
of their hearts. The sulfering, whether of martyr or victim, which 
belongs to every historical advance of mankind, is represented in this 
way in every town, and by hundreds of obscure hearths. 

The Mill on the Floss. 
3G0 



December 1. 
Alexandra, Princess of Wales, 1844. 



December 2. 



367 



December 3. 

That childish world where our two spirits mingled 
Like scents from vtirj'ing roses that remain 
One sweetness, nor can evermore be singled. 
Yet the twin habit of that early time 
Lingered for long about the heart and tongue ; 
We had been natives of one happ}' clime, 
And its dear accent to our utterance clung. 

But were another childhood world m}^ share 
I would be born a little sister there. 

Brother and Sister. 

December 4. 



Is it any weakness, pray, to be wrought on by exquisite music ? to feel 
its wondrous harmonies searching the subtlest windings of your soul? 
If not, then neither is it a weakness to be so wrought upon by the 
exquisite curves of a woman's cheek and neck and arms, by the liquid 
depths of her searching eyes, or the sweet, childish pout of lier lips. 

Adam Bede. 



368 



December 3. 
Mary Lamb, 1767. 



December 4. 
Madame I? ccamier, 1777. 



369 



December 5. 



There's no pleasure i' living, if 3-01; 're to be corked up for iver, and 

only dribble 3'our mind out by the sly, like a leaky barrel. I shan't 

repent saying what I think, if I live to be as old as th' old squire ; and 

there's little likelihoods — for it seems as if them as aren't wanted here 

are the only folks as are n't wanted i' the other world. 

Adam Bede. 



December 6. 

So, if I live or die to serve mj' friend 
'T is for my love — 't is for my friend alone, 
And not for any rate that friendship bears 
In heaven or on earth. 

Daniel Deronda. 

— .^^ — 

For effective magic is transcendant nature ; and who shall measure 
the subtlety of those touches which convey the quality of soul as well 
as body. 

MiDULEMAUCH. 

370 



December 5. 



December 6. 
Caroline Bowles SoTitbcy, 17S6. 



37] 



December 7. 



The most powerful movement of feeling with a liturgy is the prayer 

which seeks for nothing special, but is a yearning to escape from the 

limitations of our own weakness, and an invocation of all good to enter 

and abide with us ; or else a self-oblivious lifting up of gladness that 

such good exists. 

Daniel Deronda. 



December 8. 
Was she beautiful or not beautiful? and what was the form and expres- 
sion which gave the dynamic quality to her glance? Was the good or 
the evil genius dominant in those beams? Probably the evil ; else why 
was the effect that of unrest rather than of undisturbed charm? 

— cft.^§; — Daniel Deronda. 

Our daily familiar life is but a hiding of ourselves from each other 
behind a screen of trivial words and deeds, and those who sit with us at 
the same hearth are often the farthest off from the deep human soul 
within us, full of unspoken evil and unacted good. Janet's Repentance. 

Her finely touched spirit had still its fino issues, though they were not 
widely visible. Middlemakcii. 



December 7. 




ay/e^ /Yt^^^^ccx^^^^ ^-^y^2^^^t?-ert:^ ^ 



December 8. 
Lady Ann Barnard, 1750; Mary, Queen of Scots, 1542. 



873 



December 9. 



The refuge 3'ou are needing from personal trouble is the higher, the 

religious life, which holds an enthusiasm for something more than our 

own appetites and vanities. The few may find themselves in it by an 

elevation of feeling ;"but for us who have to strugi^le for our wisdom, the 

higher life must be a region ia which the affections are clad with 

knowledge. 

Daniel Deroxda. 



Decembeh 10. 



I HAVE usually found that it is the rather dull person who appears to 
be disgusted with his contemporaries because they are not always 
strikingly original, and to satisfy whom the party at a countr}' house 
should have included the prophet Isaiah, Plato, Francis Bacon, and 

Voltaire. 

Theopiirastus Such. 



374 



December 9. 



December 10. 



375 



December 11. 



It is right and meet that there should be an abundant utterance of 
good, sound common places. Part of an agreeable talker's charm is that 
he lets them fall continually with no more than due emphasis. Giving a 
pleasant voice to what we are all well assured of, makes a sort of whole- 
some air for more special and dubious remark to move in. 

TiiEOPHKASTus Sucn. 



December 12. 



" Ah ! I often think it 's wi' th' old folks as it is wi' the babbies," said 

Mrs. Poyser; "they are satisfied wi' looking, no matter what they're 

looking at. It 's God A'mighty's way o' quietening 'em, I reckon, afore 

they go to sleep. 

Adam Bede. 



376 



December 11. 



December 12. 



377 



December 13. 



Then Memniy disclosed her face divine 
That like tlie calm nocturnal lights doth shine 
Within the soul, and shows the sacred graves, 
And shows the presence that no sinilight craves, 
No space, no warmth, but moves among their all. 



The Legend ov Jubal. 



December 14. 



Our dead are never dead to us until we have forgotten them ; they can 

be injured by us, they can be wounded ; they know all our penitence, all 

our aching sense that their place is empty ; all the kisses we bestow on 

the smallest relic of their presence. 

Adam Bede. 



378 



December 13. 



December 14. 



;i7ii 



December 15. 

The doctor's estimate was apt to rise and fall with entries in the day- 
book ; and I have known Mr. Pilgrim discover the most unexpected vir- 
tues in a patient seized with a promising illness. Gradually, however, 
as his patients became convalescent, his view of their characters became 
more dispassionate ; when they could relish mutton-chops, he began to 
admit they had foibles, and by the time they had swallowed theii- last 
dose of tonic, he was alive to their most inexcusable faults. 



Janet's IIepentancr. 



December 16. 



Peaceful authorship ! living In the air of fields and downs, and not in the 
thrice-breathod Ijreath of criticism — bringinii no Dantesque leanness; rather, 
assisting nutrition by complacency, and perhaps givinn' a more suffiisive sense of 
achievement than the production of a whole Divina Coramedia. 

Daniel Dekonda. 

And what is a portrait of a woman? Your painting and plastic are poor stuff, 
after all. They perturb and dull conceptions instead of raising them. Language 
is a finer medium, gives a fuller image. After all, the true seeing is within ; and 
ptiintiug stares at you witii an insistent impei'fection. This woman whom yon 
have just seen, for example : How would you print her voice, pray? But her 
voice is much diviner tliiin anything you have seen of her. 

MlDDLKMARCU. 

3S0 



December 15. 



December 16. 

Mary Russell Mitford, 1750; Jane Austun, 177o. 



381 



December 17. 

We do not expect people to be deeply moved by what is not unusual. 
That element of tragedy which lies in the very fact of frequency has not 
yet wrought itself into the coarse emotion of mankind, and perhaps our 
frames could hardly bear much of it. If we had a keen vision and feel- 
ing of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow 
and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of tlie roar which lies 
on the other side of silence. 

MiDDLEMAKCH. 

December 18. 



The worst of miseries 

Is when a nature framed for noblest things 

Condemns itself in youth to petty joys 

And, sore athirst for air, breathes scanty life 

Gasping from out the shallows. 

The Spanish Gypsy. 



382 



December 17. 



December IS. 

Queen Christina, of Sweden^ 1G26. 



^^ i. , f Cc ^iuLx-cj»- ^r^c.^:^ 



?,s;] 



December 19. 

I, TOO, rest ill faith 
That mail's perfection is the crowiiiug flower, 
Toward which the urgent sap in life's great tree 
Is pressing- — seen in puny blossoms now, 
But in the world's great morrows to expand 
With broadest petal and with deepest glow. 

A Minor Pkopiiet. 

SixGS God-taught such marrow-thrilling tales 
As seem the very voice of dying Spring, 
A flute-like wail that mourns the blossoms 
And sinks, and is not, like their fragrant breath, 
With line transition on the trembling air. 

The Spaxisii Gypsy. 

December 20. 

How long is it? — onl}' two centuries since a vessel carried over the 
ocean the beginning of the great North American nation. The people 
grew like meeting waters. They were various in habit and sect. There 
came a time, a century ago, when they needed a polit}', and there were 
heroes of peace among them. What had they to form a polity with, but 
memories of Europe, corrected by the vision of a better? 

DaXIKL DKnONDA. 



.•;.s4 



December 19. 
Mary A. Livcnnore, 1821 ; Eiuilj' Broiiti', 1819 



December 20. 



.•'.85 



December 21. 



Much quotation of any sort, even in English, is bad. It tends to 

choke ordinary remarlv. One xjouldn't carrj' on life comfortably without 

a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than we 

can put it ourselves. 

Danief. Deuoxda. 



December 22. 

A >rixD consciously, energetically moving with the larger march of human 
destinies, but not the less full of conscience and tender heart for the footsteps 
that tread near and need a leaning place. 

Daniel Deroxda. 

Whex ray Father comes, 
He breathes into my soul his generous hope, — 
By his own greatness making life seem great. 

The life we choose 
Breathes high, and sees a full-arched firmament. 
Our deeds shall speak like rock-liewn messages, 
Teaching great purpose to the distant time. 

The Spanish Gypsy. 
38G 



December 2 j 



December 22. 
Francos Power Cobb, 1822; Sara Coleridge, 1S02 ; Anna H. Jiidson, 1787. 



;ss7 



December 23. 



And poor, aged, fretful Lisbeth, without grasping any distinct idea, 

without going through any course of religious emotions, felt a vague 

sense of goodness and love, and of something right lying underneath 

and beyond all this sorrowing life. 

Adam Bede. 



December 24. 

I NEVER cheat anybody- as doesn't want to cheat me, Miss — lors, I'm 

a honest cliap, I am ; onl^- I must bev a bit o' sport, an' now I don't go 

wi' the feiTcts, I 've got no varmint to come over but them haggling 

women. But I '11 leave off that trick wi' m}' big thumb if you don't 

think well on me for it, Miss — but it 'ud be a pit}', it would — I 

couldn't find another trick so good — and what 'ud be the use having a 

big thumb ? 

The Mill on the Floss. 

38S 



December 23. 



December 24. 



r)80 



December 25. 

Those green boughs, the hymn and anthem never heard but at Christ- 
mas — even the Athenasian Creed, which was discriminated from the 
others only as being larger and of exceptional AMrtue, since it was only 
had on rare occasions — brought a vague, exulting sense, for which the 
grown men could as little have found words as the children, that some- 
tliing great and mysterious had been done for them in keaven above, and 

in earth below. 

S1LA8 Makner. 

December 26. 



Plow the great planet glows, and looks at me. 

And seems to pierce me with his effluence ! 

AVere he a living God, these rays that stir 

In me the pulse of wonder were in him 

Fulness of knowledge. 

The Sp.\Nisn Gyp.sy. 



December 25. 



December 26. 
Mrs. Mary Somerville, 1780. 



391 



December 27. 



For the men are mostlj' so slow, that their thoughts overrun 'em, an' 

they can only catch 'em by the tail. I can count a stocking-top while a 

man's getting ready ; an' when he's out with his speech at last, there's 

little broth to be made on 't. Howiver, I 'm not denyin' the women are 

foolish ; God Almight}^ made 'em to match the men. 

. Adam Bede. 



December 28. 

A 3-earning for some hidden soul of things. 
Some outward touch complete on inner springs 
That vaguely moving bred a lonel}^ pain, 
A want that did but stronger grow with gain 
Of all good else, as spirits miglit be sad 
For lack of speech to tell us thev are glad. 

The Legend of Jubal. 

yy2 



December 27. 



December 28. 



;!i.):; 



December 29. 



Her full nature, like that river of which Alexander broke the strength, 
spent itself in channels which had no great name on earth. But the 
effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diftusive, • 

MiDDLEMAKCH. 



December 30. 



Why could he not make up his mind to the al)sence of children from 

his hearth brightened by such a wife ? I suppose it is the way with all 

men and women who reach middle life without the clear perception that 

life never can be thoroughly joyous ; under the vague dulness of the 

gray hours, dissatisfaction see'ks a definite object, and finds it in the 

privation of an untried good. 

Silas Marxek. 



394 



December 29. 
Susannah AVeslej', 1670. 



December 30. 



395 



December 31. 

The fields are hoar}^ with December's frost, 

I, too, am hoary with the chills of age. 

But through the fields and through the untrodden woods 

'Is rest and stillness. 

Felix Holt. 

— =1^ — 

For the growing good of the world is partl}^ dependent on unhistoric 

acts ; and that things are not so ill with 3'ou and me as they might have 

been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life and 

rest in unvisited tombs. 

Mlddleiiakch. 



396 



December 31. 



397 



O MAT I join the choir invisible 

Of these immortal dead who live again 

In minds made better by their presence ; live 

In pulses stirred to generosity, 

In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn 

For miserable aims that end with self, 

In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, 

And with their mild persistence urge man's search 

To vaster issues. 

George Eliot. 



398 



INDEX OF NAMES. 



Warren, 



Adams, Abagail, . 
Alcott, Louisa May, 
Alexandra, Princess of Wales, 
Anne, Queen of England, . 
Anthony, Susan, . 
Antoinette, Maria, 
Appleton, Mrs. Emily 
Aspasia, 
Austen, Jane, 
Bache, Sarah Franklin, 
Baillie, Joanna,* . 
Barbauld, Mrs., . 
Barnard, Lady Ann, 
Berry, Miss, . 
Blackwell, Lucy Stone, 
Blessington, Lady, 
Bonheur, Rosa, . 
Bright-Eyes, 
Bront6, Charlotte, 



345 
363 
367 

41 

51 
335 
143 

81 
381 
279 
121 
187 
373 

83 
247 
269 

89 
109 
125 



Bront(?, Emily, 

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 

Brown, Mrs. John, 

Bunsen, Baroness, 

Burney, Fanny, . 

Byron, Lady, 

Carpenter, Mary, . 

Carlyle, Jane Welsh, . 

Cary, Alice, .... 

Gary, Phoebe, 

Catherine II., Empress of Russia 

Child, Lydia Maria, 

Christina, Queen of Sweden, 

Cobbe, Frances Power, 

Coleridge, Sara, . 

Cook, Rose Terry, 

Corday, Charlotte, 

Coutts, Baroness Burdett, . 

Craik, Dinah Muloch,* 



385 
151 
117 

71 
181 
151 
105 
213 
127 
271 
135 

47 
383 
387 
387 

53 
227 
127 

29 



399 



INDEX OF NAMES. 



Cushman, Charlotte, . 


223 


Darling, Grace, .... 


357 


Delaney, Mrs., .... 


147 


Dickinson, Anna, 


327 


Dix, Dorothea, .... 


105 


Dodge, Abagail,* .... 


287 


Dora, Sister, .... 


17 


Eliot, George, .... 


355 


Edgeworth, Maria, 


3 


Elizabeth, Queen of England, . 


275 


Eugenia, Empress, 


139 


Fiske, Fidelia, .... 


135 


Fleming, Margery, ..." 


17 


Fry, Mrs. Elizabeth, . 


155 


Fuller, Margaret, 


157 


Garfield, Mrs. Lucretia Randolf, . 


121 


Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft, . 


129 


Goldschmidt, Jenny Lind, . 


321 


Gratz, Rebecca, .... 


71 


Gray, Lady Jane, 


175 


Guyon, Madame, 


115 


Hayes, IMrs. Lucy Webb, . 


261 


Hamilton, Gail,* .... 


287 


Heloise,* 


87 


Hemans, ISIrs. Felicia, . 


293 


Herschel, Caroline, 


83 


Hortense, Queen of Holland, 


111 



Hosmer, Harriet, . 
Howe, Julia Ward, 
Howett, Mary, 
Huntington, Countess of, 
Hypatia,* 
Inchbald, Mrs., . 
Ingelow, Jean, 
Isabella, Queen of Castile, 
Jackson, Helen Hunt, , 
Jameson, Mrs., 
Joan of Arc,* 
Josephine, Empress, 
Judson, Mrs. Ann H., . 
Kaufman, Angelica, 
Kemble, Frances Ann, . 
Kent, Duchess of, 
Kimball, Harriet McEwcn, 
King, Louisa W., . 
Klopstock, Mrs. Margaret, 
Lamb, Lady Caroline, . 
Lamb, INIary, 
La Flcche, Suzettc, 
Landon, Letitia E., 
Livermore, Mrs. Mary A., 
Louisa, Queen of Prussia, 
Louise, Princess, . 
Lowell, Maria White, . 



400 



INDEX OF NAMES. 



Martlneau, Harriet, 


. 179 


Mary, Queen of Scots, 


. 373 


Medicis, de, Catherine,* 


. 353 


Mitchell, Maria, . • . . 


. 235 


Mitford, Mary Russell, 


. 381 


Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley, . 


159 


Moore, Hannah, .... 


37 


Mott, Lucretia, .... 


5 


Nightingale, Florence,* 


143 


Nilsson, Christine, 


253 


Oliphant, Mrs.,* .... 


39 


Opie, Mrs. Amelia, 


345 


Patti, Adelaide, .... 


55 


Patterson, Dorothy Windlow, . 


17 


Peabody, Elizabeth Palmer, 


149 


Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart, . 


263 


Piatt, Mrs. M. B., ... 


, 245 


Procter, Adelaide Anne, 


329 


Rachel, Madame, .... 


63 


RadclifF, Mrs. Anna, . 


209 


Recamier, Madame, . 


369 


Remusat, Madame, 


7 


Ripley, Mrs. Sarah Alden, . 


231 


Roper, Margaret, 


209 


Sand, George, 


201 


Sappho, 


171 


Sarah, Duchess of Marlbprpugh, 


163 



Sevign^, Madame, 
Sewall, Harriet Winslow, 
Siddons, Mrs., 
Sigouney, Lydia H., . 
Sonierville, Mrs. Mary, 
Southey, Caroline Bowles, 
SpofFord, Harriet Prescott, 
Stael, de, Madame, 
Stanhope, Lady Hester, 
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 
Stuart, Arabella,* 
Sutherland, Duchess of, 
Theresa, Maria, . 
Thrale, Mrs., 
Thaxter, Celia, 
Victoria, Queen of England, 
Washington, Lady Martha,* 
Weld, Angelina Grimk6, 
Wesley, Susannah,* . 
White, Mrs. Caroline Earle, 
Whitman, Sarah Helen, 
Whitney, Miss Anne, . 
Whitney, Mrs. A. D. T., . 
Wilhemina, Fredrica Sophia, 
Willard, Mrs. Emma, . 



401 



